Your students can demonstrate their erosion knowledge and science inquiry skills all while having fun building sandcastles with this assessment resource.

A budget of $10 000 will be provided for them to purchase erosion mitigation strategy materials that they can apply to one of their sandcastles. These include items such as rocks to build a seawall and small pieces of branches for revegetation. Wind and water will then cause weathering and erosion and your students will compare the effect of the mitigation strategies to a sandcastle that had no defences.

By completing the investigation, your students should realise the high expense of erosion mitigation strategies and the fact that they cannot stop the natural process of erosion, only slow it down.

The resource includes a helpful teacher information page, student instructions, supporting worksheets and a comprehensive assessment rubric. It is part of our Year 5 Earth and Space Sciences Unit and is ideal to use following the Erosion Mitigation PowerPoint.