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Goals and Objectives

Goals

  • Students will build upon the material of Module 2 and be able to recognize that there are discrete, unique coastal systems such as rocky coasts, coral coasts, deltas, barrier islands, and marshlands within regional-scale coastal zones.
  • Students will develop an understanding for what processes are operative within the range of coastal systems and how these processes shape the coastal systems.
  • Students will appreciate that coastal systems evolve differently in response to fair-weather conditions or storm conditions.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson you should be able to:

  • Identify and describe the different types of coastal systems that exist and explain the morphological differences between these types of coastal systems.
  • Use and manipulate field-gathered elevation data within Excel to create cross-sectional profile plots of a barrier island system.
  • Evaluate the time series of barrier island cross sections to assess how storm processes affect a barrier island system relative to processes during fair weather conditions.

Lesson 3 Roadmap

AssignmentLocation
To Read
  • For this module, you will need to read all of the required materials here on the course site.
To DoBLENDED CLASS
  1. Formative Assessment 1: Coastal Evolution
  2. Formative Assessment 2: Beach Profiling Exercise
  3. Capstone Project Stage 1
  • Submit Formative Assessments in attached word documents.
To DoONLINE ONLY CLASS
  1. Summative Assessment: Beach Profiling Exercise
  2. Capstone Project Stage 1

These materials are part of a collection of classroom-tested modules and courses developed by InTeGrate. The materials engage students in understanding the earth system as it intertwines with key societal issues. The collection is freely available and ready to be adapted by undergraduate educators across a range of courses including: general education or majors courses in Earth-focused disciplines such as geoscience or environmental science, social science, engineering, and other sciences, as well as courses for interdisciplinary programs.
Explore the Collection »