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The Five Oceans

Your child can name the five oceans — the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. They can find them on a map and know they all join as one big sea.

In curriculum terms

Name and locate the five oceans — Pacific (largest), Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic (smallest and coldest) — on a world map, and understand that they are all connected as one global ocean

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Try this together

If your child looked at a world map, could they point to each of the five oceans by name and explain that they're all connected into one big global ocean?

Where this sits on the map

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

Builds on
What Is the Ocean?ages 5–7Naming five oceans requires knowing what oceans are
Where water is found on Earthages 7–8Five oceans builds on curriculum concept of where water is found on Earth
The Five Oceansthis skill · ages 7–9
Unlocks
Ocean Animal Migrationsages 9–11Migration across oceans requires knowing the geography of oceans
Oceans & Climateages 9–11Climate connection benefits from knowing ocean geography
Polar Oceans and World Climateages 9–11Knowing the five oceans including Arctic enriches polar oceans topic (Ocean 7-9 -> Polar 9-11)

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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).

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