Students take on the roles of civil engineers as they use a river model to investigate how flowing water erodes and deposits sediments to create common landforms. They then design erosion-control structures and use the river model to test them. Based on the results of their initial testing, students redesign and retest their structures. This activity, from the new SEPUP Interactions middle level unit (NGSS middle level edition) addresses MS-ESS.A, MS-ETS1.A, and MS-ESS2.C.
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