# Life's a Beach - Management and Action
_This page includes activities for students looking how we can reduce the human impact on the beach environment._
This is one of six education resource topics created for teachers of science and social science. This page includes activities for students looking how we can reduce the human impact on the beach environment.
[View our Life's a Beach resource videos](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNI0sfOqUe3g6gHdSN4ssk6qtCnX36Q_H "youtube")
The chart below outlines all activities that can be used in the classroom as well as out in the environment.
| Activities | Activities | Environmental Education Aspect | Environmental Education Concept | Curriculum Links | Suggested Curriculum Level |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 6a | Reducing human impacts
[Activity summary and activity sheets](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3887999/content "Activity summary and activity sheets") | About the environment | Sustainability
Personal and social responsibility for action | Social Science | Any |
| 6b | Dune use management and different parts of the beach
[Activity summary and activity sheets](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888001/content "Activity summary and activity sheets") | About the environment | Personal and social responsibility for action
Sustainability
Interdependence | Social Science | Any secondary |
| 6c | RMA and coastal management legislation
[Activity summary and activity sheets](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888003/content "Activity summary and activity sheets") | About the environment | Personal and social responsibility for action
Sustainability
Interdependence | Social Science | Any secondary |
| 6d | Decision making - who does what on the coast?
[Activity summary and activity sheets](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888005/content "Activity summary and activity sheets")
[PDF of PowerPoint presentation](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888007/content "PDF of PowerPoint presentation")
[Managing our coast](https://www.boprc.govt.nz/living-in-the-bay/teacher-resources/lifes-a-beach-management-and-action/# "Managing our coast") | About the environment | Interdependence
Personal and social responsibility for action
Sustainability | Social Science | Any secondary |
| 6e | Coast Care
[Activity summary and activity sheets](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888009/content "Activity summary and activity sheets")
[PDF of PowerPoint presentation](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888011/content "PDF of PowerPoint presentation") | For/with the environment | Personal and social responsibility for action
Sustainability | Social Science | Any |
| 6f | Coast Care jigsaw
[Activity summary and activity sheets](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888013/content "Activity summary and activity sheets") | About the environment | Sustainability
Interdependence | Social Science | Level 4 and below |
| 6g | Values and the dunes
[Activity summary and activity sheets](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888015/content "Activity summary and activity sheets") | About the environment | Personal and social responsibility for action
Interdependence
Sustainability | Social Science | Level 4 and above |
| 6h | Values and decision making case study - Pukehina
[Activity summary and activity sheets](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888017/content "Activity summary and activity sheets") | About the environment | Sustainability
Interdependence | Social Science | Any secondary |
| 6i | Values role play
[Activity summary and activity sheets](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888019/content "Activity summary and activity sheets") | About the environment | Interdependence
Sustainability | Social Science | Any secondary |
| 6j | Coastal protection - different management options
[Activity summary and activity sheets](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888021/content "Activity summary and activity sheets")
[PDF of PowerPoint presentation](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888023/content "PDF of PowerPoint presentation") | About the environment | Sustainability
Interdependence | Social Science | Any secondary |
| 6k | Beach management case study - Ōhiwa
[Activity summary and activity sheets](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888025/content "Activity summary and activity sheets")
[PDF of Powerpoint presentation](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888027/content "PDF of Powerpoint presentation") | About the environment | Biodiversity
Sustainability
Interdependence | Social Science | Any secondary |
| 6l | Create your own beach case study
[Activity summary and activity sheets](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888029/content "Activity summary and activity sheets") | For/with the environment | Personal and social responsibility for action
Sustainability
Interdependence | Social Science | Level 3 and above |
| 6m | Developing a plan of action to protect the local beach
[Activity summary and activity sheets](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888031/content "Activity summary and activity sheets") | For/with the environment | Biodiversity
Personal and social responsibility for action
Sustainability
Interdependence | Social Science | Level 2 and above |
| 6n | Oil spills and the beach community
[Activity summary and activity sheets](https://atlas.boprc.govt.nz/api/v1/edms/document/A3888033/content "Activity summary and activity sheets") | About the environment | Interdependence | Social Science
Science | Any secondary |