Tides, Waves & Currents
Your child knows why the sea moves. Tides rise and fall each day, pulled by the Moon. Wind makes waves. Currents flow through the sea like giant rivers.
In curriculum terms
Know that the ocean has tides (water level rises and falls twice a day, caused mainly by the Moon's gravity), waves (caused by wind), and currents (rivers of water flowing through the ocean that carry warmth and nutrients around the world)
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If your child noticed the water level changing at the beach during the day, could they explain that tides are caused by the Moon's pull, and that the ocean also has waves from wind and currents that flow like underwater rivers?
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Curriculum alignment
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Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 1 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
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
describe how weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition cause slow or rapid change to Earth’s surface
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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