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  1. Years 9-10
  2. Australian Geography
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  4. Australia's Human Characteristics: Demographic Research
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Additional Information

View the Recording Templates for this Activity (Microsoft Word, 46 KB)

Guidelines for marking

The following guidelines for marking show one approach to assigning a value to a student's work. Other approaches may be used that better suit the reporting process of the school. Categories, marks, grades, visual representations or individual comments/notations may all be useful.

Range A student in this range

8-10

(High)
  • identifies, selects and organises relevant data for Australia and chooses countries that clearly show different levels of development
  • clearly presents appropriate demographic characteristics in tabulated form
  • analyses comparative data and clearly illustrates the unique human characteristics of Australia
  • accurately and confidently communicates geographical information orally

4-7

(Satisfactory)
  • identifies, selects and organises data for Australia and chooses countries at different levels of development
  • presents appropriate demographic characteristics in tabulated form
  • explains comparative data to illustrate the unique human characteristics of Australia
  • accurately communicates geographical information orally

1-3

(Progressing)
  • identifies, selects and organises some data for Australia and other countries
  • presents some demographic characteristics in tabulated form
  • may refer to data
  • orally communicates geographical information to a limited degree.

Feedback

Students will be given oral feedback by the teacher. Comments will inform them about such things as:

  • their ability to identify, select and organise data
  • the appropriateness of their geographical communication
  • the accuracy and depth of analysis and evaluation of the data
  • their ability to communicate geographical information orally.

Peer assessment using Worksheet 2 is an option.

Future directions

Students whose performances satisfy the criteria for this Activity use geographical tools and population pyramids to further investigate demographic characteristics, to describe trends and to explain how Australia's community is changing. Students' achievements in this task will enable the teacher to make a judgement about the ways subsequent teaching and learning activities might consolidate the skills of acquiring and processing geographical information.

Resources

Students are provided with a range of resources from textbooks and internet sites. Internet access allows students to gather up-to-date statistics. (Statistics are also available in atlases, yearbooks and some textbooks.)

The CIA World Fact Book

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/as.html

ELDIS Country Profiles

Quick-links guide to country-level information: news, statistics, organisations and sectoral information

http://www.eldis.org/country/index.htm

BBC News Country Profiles

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/country_profiles/default.stm

DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH TABLE PEER ASSESSMENT WORKSHEET

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