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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

Ages are typical, not deadlines — follow your child’s pace. How to help at home →

How to tell they’ve got it

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Try this together

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?

Where this sits on the map

Stuck here? Check the skills it builds on first. Confident? Here’s what it unlocks.

Builds on
Nothing on the map comes before this — it’s a starting point.
Coasts & Beachesthis skill · ages 5–7
Unlocks
Tides, Waves & Currentsages 7–9Tides shape coastal habitats; builds on beach/coast concept
Rock Pool Habitatsages 5–7Rock pools are a coastal habitat; benefits from knowing about coasts

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

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).

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