Investigating

Coasts

A Website designed for Geography education in Primary Schools.

Teachers Page

The geography topic 'Investigating Coasts' is aimed at Year 5 or Year 6 pupils, and is Unit 23 of the QCA schemes of work for geography. This website aims to aid the teaching of this topic, and can be used by both pupils and by teachers to further their knowledge.

The National Curriculum 2000 requires that pupils cover the water theme in geography, and this can be either the study of rivers or coasts. Pupils should learn about the effects of water on the landscape and on people, in the study of coasts. This unit provides a foundation for further study of coasts in Key Stage 3 geography. This website can be used for the study of coasts only, and should be used alongside the teaching of this topic and not alone. The website caters for all pupils, some of the material is more advanced than what may be expected but this can be used for the more able pupils.

This page provides notes on the following for the teaching of this topic:

• Prior Learning
• Future Learning
• Expectations

Useful Links:

• Click on the logo for QCA Scheme of Work on coasts

• Click on the NC logo for requirements for KS2 geography

• Click on the BBC logo for resources for coasts.

Future Learning:

Children can build on the work in this topic by investigating water in mountain environments, which is unit 15 of QCA schemes of work for geography, or by studying water management and water-related events, for example floods, through the news. This is unit 16 of QCA schemes of work for geography.

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Expectations:

By the end of this unit of work children should be able to describe the main features of coastal environments and begin to recognise the processes of erosion and deposition in coastal environments. They should also begin to understand that these processes shape and change the coastline. Pupils should also be able to identify the different locations of coastal environments and look at similarities and differences between them. They should also have begun to look at how people use coastal environments and recognise how people can improve or damage them.

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