Welcome

Welcome to the year 8 science coastal field studies

Our class project is the investigation of the Geology and Environment of Local Coastal Rock Platforms on the Central Coast of NSW

The NSW coast is an environmentally fragile area which is under increasing pressure from new residents, development, and more recently, climate change.

Each of our class teams will be studying a local beach area, compiling results here and reporting back our findings.

The relevant pages in this wiki are:

**Home** - The landing page **Welcome**, this page - An overview of the project's outcomes, the wiki and its structure **Introduction** - An introduction to the geology and environment of the Central Coast's, coastal areas **Fieldwork Activities** - This page provides a list of the activities that will be undertaken by the students. **Student Team** Pages (**1,2,3,4**) - Each of the team's contributions **Sandbox** - For play!

The educational objectives of our fieldwork project as per the Stage 4 Science Syllabus are listed below.

Stage 4 Syllabus

Syllabus relevancy Outcome 4.8 A student describes features of living things. Outcome 4.9 A student describes the dynamic stucture of Earth. Outcome 4.10 A student identifies factors affecting survival of organisms in an ecosystem. Outcome 4.14 A student follows a sequence of instructions to undertake a firsthand investigation. Outcome 5.10 A student assesses human impacts on the interaction of biotic and abiotic features of the environment.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In respect of the field study specifically students will learn to:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4.8.2(b) - Describe features of living things and identify them using a simple key.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4.10(a) - Describe some adaptations of intertidal organisms (and coastal plants) to factors in their environment.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4.10(b) - Describe how producers, consumers, and decomposers are related in a food chain.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4.14 - Follow a sequence of instructions to undertake a firsthand investigation, of a transect to measure distribution and abundance.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4.9.6(c) - Learn to relate the formation of landforms to weathering, erosion and deposition.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5.10 - Describe some impacts of human activities on rock platforms and discuss one management strategy used to balance this activity and the needs of the environment.

NSW Board of Studies Syllabus Years 7-10 Updated July 2009