Students explore how different materials (sand, gravel, lava rock) with different water contents on different slopes result in landslides of different severity. They measure the severity by how far the landslide debris extends into model houses placed in the flood plain. This activity is a small-scale model of a debris chute currently being used by engineers and scientists to study landslide characteristics. Much of this activity setup is the same as for the Survive That Tsunami activity in Lesson 5 of the Natural Disasters unit.

Concepts

engineering, natural disasters, stem, landslides

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Additional Tags

debris flow, geology lesson plans, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, landslide, natural disaster, land

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)