Description
Do you want your students to learn how barrier reefs protect coastal communities from waves, storms, flooding, and erosion? This informational text unit explains how coral reefs act as buffers, dissipating as much as 97% of the energy of incoming waves and protecting coastal communities from storms and flooding.
What is included in this barrier reef unit?
- Lesson Plan
- Two pages of informational text
- Comprehension questions
- Vocabulary activity
- Extension Writing/Thinking Activity
- CER
- Answer Keys
- In printable PDF and Google™ Slides
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Students will also consider how the Earth’s spheres interact. In a barrier reef, you can see an interaction between the earth’s hydrosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere.
Note: This resource talks a little about biodiversity and conservation, but the main focus is on the protection barrier reefs provide to nearby coastal land and communities. If you are looking for something more detailed on the organisms of a coral reef or the conservation and restoration of coral reefs, please check out these other resources.
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