Lesson Overview
In this lesson plan, students will learn about the unique and complicated threat coastal erosion, sea level rise, and climate change poses to cultural sites. Students will examine how maritime archaeology, otherwise known as underwater archaeology, can address these issues, especially in managing sites that are currently being submerged due to sea level rise. Students will learn about archaeology through a short video by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Heritage Trust Program and explore these issues through the case study of a barrel well on Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve in Beaufort County, South Carolina.
Essential Question
How can maritime archaeology and heritage management adapt to and mitigate the threats that climate change and sea level rise pose to the world's coastal cultural sites?
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- 2-ESS1-1. Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur rapidly or slowly.
- 2-ESS2-1. Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.
- 2-ESS3-1. Design solutions to address human impacts on natural resources in the local environment.
- 3-ESS3-1 Make a claim about the effectiveness of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather related hazard.
- 4-ESS3-2. Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.
- 5-ESS3-1. Evaluate potential solutions to problems that individual communities face in protecting the Earths resources and environment.
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Lesson Partners: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources