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Learners use beach profile data from a local beach or online data from Ocean City, Maryland to investigate coastal erosion and sediment transport.

This activity demonstrates liquefaction, the process by which some soils lose their solidity during an earthquake.

In this outdoor, beach activity, learners use tennis balls, water balloons and other simple devices to investigate the movement of waves and currents off a sandy beach.

In this activity, learners observe mixtures of sand samples glued to note cards, and consider how sand can differ in size, shape, and color, and where it comes from.

In this geology activity, learners use a microscope to discover and identify the components of sand.

In this activity, learners explore a bucket of sand and beach objects.