Explore the shore with EO Kids’ Barrier Islands: Sands & Lands in Motion. Learn about Earth’s changing shorelines, especially barrier islands. Plus, create your own model of the shores and watch erosion and deposition take place in our “DIY Science” activity: “A Model Shoreline.”
Explore the changing seashore with EO Kid’s issue, Barrier Islands: Sands and Lands in Motion. Autumn Burdick shows you how to do the simple experiment where you can make your own model shoreline and observe longshore drift in action.
Related stories from the Earth Observatory for educators
- World of Change: Coastline Change
- Wide Wildwood Beaches
- Barrier Islands Along Arctic Shores
- Barrier Islands off Brazil
- Assateague on the Move
- A Changed Coastline in Jersey
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