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Year 6

Coasts: what happens where the land meets the sea?

8 lessons

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  • Physical processes
  • Sustainability and climate change
  • The UK and regions

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This unit explores how coastal landscapes form and change. Pupils learn about erosion, habitats and human activity at the coast, and investigate how coastal environments are used, protected and managed in the face of ongoing change.

This unit builds on pupils’ knowledge of physical processes such as rivers and weathering by focusing on how the coastline is shaped and reshaped over time. Its placement supports pupils to apply map skills and understand how people interact with changing environments. Pupils explore erosion, defence strategies, tourism and ecosystems, and begin to consider how climate change and human decisions affect coastal places. This prepares them to evaluate geographical change and sustainability in the wider world.

  1. The coast of the UK
  2. Mapping the coast
  3. Coastal erosion
  4. The changing coastline
  5. Protecting the land
  6. Coastal habitats and ecosystems
  7. Coasts and tourism
  8. Coasts and the future

  • Able to identify some key geographical features of a coast.
  • Some experience of a coastal location through first-hand experience.
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