This Coastal Management Study Guide
is designed to assist teachers to engage students (target ages
11 – 16 years) in the complex issues of Coastal Management,
with coastal erosion as the “attractor”. Background
information spanning topics such as ‘the dynamic coast’, ’what
are the issues’, ‘managing for the future’ and ‘how
do we measure coastal change’ is presented. A broad range
of fully developed independent and guided student activities
are provided for use inside and outside the classroom,
including hands-on experiments, analysis of media reporting,
and role-playing.
This Guide targets Australian High School STEM curriculum areas (Years
7–10) of Physical Sciences, Human Society & its Environment (HSIE),
Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences and Maths. More broadly, it
is anticipated that the Guide’s educational themes and activities will
provide a useful and stimulating resource in any classroom where
‘living at the coast’ can provide a launching point into
diverse areas of secondary school STEM education.
The full Guide is freely available in two formats:
pdf
for download and
eBook
for online viewing.
This open-access paper published in ‘Oceanography' consists of
student workshops focused on learning how to use beach profile
data to investigate how beaches respond to wave forcing during
storms and over climatic cycles. The workshops are primarily
aimed at university undergraduate students and can be easily
adapted, for which we provide some suggestions. The workshops
utilise the 40+ years of beach monitoring data from the
Narrabeen-Collaroy Beach Survey Program. While the dataset is
focused on an Australian site, the workshops are designed to
teach generic skills in processing and analyzing beach profile
data. The development of these teaching resources is a
collaboration between Macquarie University and UNSW.
Citation
Gallop, S.L., M.D. Harley, R.W. Brander,
J.A. Simmons, K.D. Splinter, and I.L. Turner. 2017. Assessing
cross-shore and alongshore variation in beach morphology due
to wave climate: Storms to decades. Oceanography
30(3):120–125.
