Earth's Layers
Your child knows the Earth has layers, like a boiled egg. A thin crust on top, a thick hot mantle below, and a core at the centre. Inside, it can melt rock.
In curriculum terms
Know that Earth has layers — a thin outer crust, a thick hot mantle, and a core at the centre — and that the inside of the Earth is extremely hot
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If your child cracks open a hard-boiled egg, can they compare it to Earth and name the three layers — crust on the outside, mantle in the middle, and core at the centre?
Where this sits on the map
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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).