How can you tell they’ve got it: Shapes of land and water?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Name and describe at least four types of landforms (mountain, valley, plain, hill, cliff); Name and describe at least three types of water bodies (river, lake, ocean, pond); Create or interpret a simple model or map showing land and water features of an area. Or just try it together: Can your child look at a map or build a model showing mountains, rivers, and oceans, and explain what each type of land or water feature is?

Science Earth's Systems Ages 7–8

Shapes of land and water

Your child can name landforms like mountains, valleys, and plains, and water like rivers, lakes, and oceans. They can show these on a map or a model.

In curriculum terms

Develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land (mountains, valleys, plains) and bodies of water (rivers, lakes, oceans) in an area

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How to tell they’ve got it

Tick these off as you see them — no test required.

Name and describe at least four types of landforms (mountain, valley, plain, hill, cliff)
Name and describe at least three types of water bodies (river, lake, ocean, pond)
Create or interpret a simple model or map showing land and water features of an area

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Try this together

Can your child look at a map or build a model showing mountains, rivers, and oceans, and explain what each type of land or water feature is?

Where this sits on the map

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

Builds on

Seasonal changesages 5–6Seasonal observation supports understanding land and water features

Shapes of land and waterthis skill · ages 7–8

Unlocks

Preventing Erosionages 7–8Must know about landforms before designing solutions to prevent wind/water erosion

Where water is found on Earthages 7–8Must know land and water features before learning where water is found on Earth

Finding patterns in dataages 9–10Must model landforms and water bodies before analysing map patterns of Earth's features

Ring of Fireages 7–9Mapping volcano/earthquake patterns benefits from knowing about landforms like mountains and valleys

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 · 2 ACARA · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9S4U02low confidenceYear 4 · Science understanding

identify sources of water and describe key processes in the water cycle, including movement of water through the sky, landscape and ocean; precipitation; evaporation; and condensation

AC9S3I04low confidenceYear 3 · Science inquiry

construct and use representations, including tables, simple column graphs and visual or physical models, to organise data and information, show simple relationships and identify patterns

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2S4I04low confidenceScience · Levels 3 and 4 · Science Inquiry 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.

Nearby on the map

Evaporation and condensationages 7–9 How fossils formages 7–8 Preventing Erosionages 7–8 Properties of materialsages 7–8

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