Your students can discover erosion around Australia and what is being done to mitigate it by completing these case studies.

Seven worksheets are included. Six of them feature specific locations in Australia that are affected by erosion. These locations have had a range of mitigation strategies applied including seawalls, revetments, groynes, beach nourishment, terracing, soil retaining walls, artificial reefs and revegetation. The other version of the worksheet is blank so that you or your students can decide the location.

You might like to give the worksheets with different locations to small groups or individuals in your classroom or you might choose to have your whole class working on a specific area at once. Your students could complete one of the worksheets or a set of them. You could use them after visiting an erosion location during an excursion or your students could research information using devices and/or books. Handy answer sheets are provided for the specific locations.

This resource is part of our Year 5 Earth and Space Sciences Unit. It is ideal to use after viewing the Erosion PowerPoint.