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Years 9-10
Australian Geography
Activities
Changing Australian Communities: Research Report
Additional Information

Additional Information

View the Recording Templates for this Activity (Microsoft Word, 48 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
16-20 (Very High)	provides a detailed description of the character of the community environment analyses 3-5 factors that have contributed to a community's sense of identity in some depth explains in a scholarly manner how the community has changed over time integrates appropriate stimulus material such as maps, tables, graphs etc provides a detailed point-form summary of their research
11-15 (High)	clearly describes the character of the community environment analyses 3-5 factors that have contributed to a community's sense of identity clearly explains how the community has changed over time uses appropriate stimulus material such as maps, tables, graphs etc provides a general point-form summary of their research
6-10 (Satisfactory)	briefly describes the character of the community environment describes 3-5 factors that have contributed to a community's sense of identity describes how the community has changed over time uses some stimulus material such as maps, tables and graphs etc provides a limited point-form summary of their research
1-5 (Progressing)	outlines the community environment broadly describes factors that have contributed to a community's sense of identity outlines how the community has changed over time poorly or inappropriately uses stimulus material such as maps, tables, graphs etc provides a cursory summary of their research.

Feedback

Written feedback from the teacher will be provided commenting on the student's:

ability to name and locate the selected community
description of the factors that contribute to the community's sense of identity
discussion of the factors causing change in the community
explanation of the impacts of change in the selected community
use of stimulus and support material.

Future directions

This Activity leads to an overview of factors causing change in Australian communities. It is consolidated through an in-class case study of an Australian community responding to change.

Students experiencing difficulty with independent research may require a more detailed scaffold for future activities of this type. Equally those who have problems with writing their extended response will need to be supported in similar activities in future through structured questioning and report-response scaffolds.