Year 4 (ACv8.4) or Year 5 (ACv9)
2 hours for up to 2 classes
Curriculum Focus: Explore natural processes and human activity that cause weathering and erosion in a local area of the Earth’s surface
Curriculum Links: Science, HASS (Geography)
Aim
For students to gain an understanding of how erosion occurs (natural and human activity), identifying it in their school’s grounds and problem solving how to reduce it.
Overview of the program
Students undertake activities to enhance their understanding of how erosion occurs both naturally and through human impact in their school grounds. During the incursion, students participate in several activities that enable them to apply the knowledge they have gained in the classroom to identify where and why erosion is occurring within their school grounds, and to consider and offer solutions to the erosion problems encountered.