ARCHIVED CONTENT: In December 2020, the CZO program was succeeded by the Critical Zone Collaborative Network (CZ Net)
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K-12 Activity: Make Your Own Landslide!
Fourmile Canyon Creek near Lee Hill Drive in NW Boulder destroyed the road, carrying a van downstream, which created a dam for timber and sediment (photo credit Frederick Blume).
13 Oct 2019
To understand landslides, students use a small-scale model to explore how Earth materials and water on varying slopes result in landslides.
The CZOs have been cooperating with the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) since 2013 to create hands-on learning exercises using CZO data for use in secondary education classrooms. The one-page, double-sided exercises have been included in AGI's Earth Sciences Week packets and sent to 16,000 teachers nationwide.
For 2019's AGI Earth Sciences Week, a new exercise, "Make Your Own Landslide!" has been created by Eric Parrish of UC Boulder and the Boulder Creek CZO. His activitiy is covered in the following documents:
- Make Your Own Landslide (1 MB pdf)
- Mini-Landslide (1 MB pdf)
- Model House Template (0.5 MB pdf)
- Activity Worksheet (0.5 MB pdf)
Additional Activity Resources
Additional hands-on exercises are available at the National Education and Outreach K-12 page.
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