Positives

• The project could be replicated in many other areas to help protect coastlines and bolster marine ecosystems that are threatened by ocean acidification, pollution, and ocean warming.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with the concept of erosion.
• The video ends at 1 minute, 31 seconds.
  

Differentiation

• Science and biology students could research the many ways that human activities are affecting our oceans and coastlines.
• Social studies classes could use this video when discussing the need for cities all over the world to adapt to or retreat from coastlines experiencing sea level rise.
• Another recommended video from the American Museum of Natural History is Climate Change Resilience: Cooling an Urban Heat Island, which outlines an initiative to paint roofs white in New York City to reflect more sunlight and reduce temperatures.
• Students could also watch this 55-minute documentary called Sinking Cities: New York.