Class 6 Creating the seashore environment

In preparation for our trip tomorrow, we discussed what we already know about the seashore environment and using this as a basis we created the seashore from sea to wall of Westward Ho! The children created rock pools, rock formations, sea defences, shallow and deep areas of the sea, plants and animals of the seashore etc. They told me about erosion, deposition and tectonic plates. They worked out that there would be a greater range of living things nearer the sea and less in the splash zone. We decided our first science investigation should be to rub different rocks together to recreate the action of the sea and see what they produce.