Living Heritage -
Mapua School
Mapua - The good, the bad, and the ugly
Disappearing Beaches of Mapua
After walking around Mapua, we discovered that a major concern for Mapua was the amount of erosion that was taking place just 602 metres in front of our school. Many questions arose from this. We broke into interest groups to investigate these areas of erosion. We can only predict what might happen in the future based on what we have observed in our investigations and research.
Here are our key questions which we want to answer…
- What is happening to Mapua Beach front and why is this happening?
- Will Room 7 become beach front? How long will it take? (MOV 1.9MB)
- How have people had an effect on erosion? (MOV 7.6MB)
- How do rock walls help and who invented them? (MOV 1.6MB)
- How does the sea shape and wear the rocks away? (JPG 47KB)
- How do houses and buildings relate to erosion? (MOV 2.7MB)
- What time of the year does erosion usually happen? (JPG 160KB)
- What does the moon have to do with erosion? (MOV 20MB)
- What effect does erosion have on sea life?
