How can you tell they’ve got it: Preventing Erosion?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Describe how wind and water can change the shape of land (erosion); Compare at least two design solutions for reducing erosion (e.g. retaining walls, plants, windbreaks); Evaluate which solution works best based on evidence from tests or observations. Or just try it together: If your child sees a sandcastle being washed away by waves, can they think of ways to protect it — like building a wall or planting grass to hold the sand?

Science Earth's Systems Ages 7–8

Preventing Erosion

Your child knows wind and water can wear away land. They can compare ways to slow it, like a wall or planting grass, and test which works best.

In curriculum terms

Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Describe how wind and water can change the shape of land (erosion)
Compare at least two design solutions for reducing erosion (e.g. retaining walls, plants, windbreaks)
Evaluate which solution works best based on evidence from tests or observations

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Try this together

If your child sees a sandcastle being washed away by waves, can they think of ways to protect it — like building a wall or planting grass to hold the sand?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Shapes of land and waterages 7–8Must know about landforms before designing solutions to prevent wind/water erosion

Preventing Erosionthis skill · ages 7–8

Unlocks

Rapid earth changesages 7–8Must understand erosion before comparing fast vs slow Earth events

Erosion and weatheringages 9–10Must understand erosion prevention before measuring weathering/erosion effects systematically

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.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1).

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2S2U09low confidenceScience · Foundation to Level 2 · Science Understanding strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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