Beach profiling Ella E,

Materials

• emery rods (1)
• Writing utensil(1)
• Beach profiling sheet (note sheet), (1)            

Methods

1. Go to a beach.
2. Find the wrack line. (Tide line)
3. Take out your emery rods. (Emery rods are two poles with a taut rope tied in between)
4. Take one pole and put on the slope (or flat land), and aline with the horizon.
5. Take both poles  and put them on the wrack line, opposite of each other.
6. Take the pole aligned with the horizon, and look what that mark is on the pole opposite to it.
7. There will be numbers on the poles, the mark will be one of these numbers.  This is your data.
8. Do this until all the data needed to find changes in the beach is found.