In this video, students will see a demonstration of a storm surge on a coastline using a model that was built to demonstrate how mangroves function to protect the coast during storms.
Students will learn how mangroves can protect the coast and will be introduced to geomorphology.
This article and video are both brief, making them easy to fit into a pre-existing lesson.
The model demonstration is very interesting and includes text to help illustrate what is happening.
Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with mangroves and where they grow.
It may benefit students to understand that coastal flooding and stronger storms are side effects of global warming and climate change.
Differentiation & Implementation
This video and article can introduce students to the power of mangroves as a barrier between land and sea. After learning this, students can study the other ecosystem services mangroves provide. The Magic of Mangroves Secondary Lesson Plan can help with this.
Teachers can implement this video in a lesson about nature-based solutions.
Advanced students can look at the sequestration power of mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes with the Project Drawdown article Coastal Wetland Protection.
Language arts students can precede this video with a vocabulary exploration of the word geomorphology, separating the word parts to hypothesize a definition.
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