Ocean Pollution & Harm
Your child knows how people harm the sea — plastic, overfishing, oil spills. Most of the mess starts on land, not from ships, and it hurts sea animals.
In curriculum terms
Identify ways humans harm the ocean — plastic pollution, overfishing, oil spills, and ocean acidification from carbon dioxide — and understand that most ocean pollution comes from land-based activities, not just ships
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Try this together
If your child saw plastic washed up on a beach, could they explain where it came from, how it harms sea life, and name other ways humans damage the ocean like overfishing and pollution from factories?
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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).