Coasts & Beaches
Your child knows the coast is where the land meets the sea. Some coasts are sandy, some rocky, some muddy. Different animals live at each one.
In curriculum terms
Know what a coast or beach is — the place where land meets the ocean — and that different coasts can be sandy, rocky, or muddy, each with different plants and animals
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If your child visited a sandy beach and then a rocky shore, could they describe how the two coasts look different and name animals you might find at each one?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).