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What is a coast?

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Mountains, Rivers and Coasts Coasts - Where Land Meets Sea

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Objectives

Geography

  • To describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including coasts, cliffs and beaches
  • To understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time.

Lesson Planning

Investigate the fascinating world of coastlines and discover what a coast actually is!

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand what the coast is and to begin know why it is so varied.
  • To begin to label key features of a coast.

Children will:

  • Know what the coast is and begin to use some geographical language to describe some key features of a coastline.
  • Work in groups to discuss what they already know and what they want to know about coasts.
  • Begin to understand why coastlines are so varied and why they are always changing.

Provided Resources

  • Coast vocabulary list
  • Mind-map; coast sentences

You Will Need

  • A3 paper, 1 sheet per group

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