Australian Geography
Areas for Assessment
Communication
Geographical tools and skills
Geographical knowledge
Grade A
A student at this grade typically:
- displays sophisticated skills to select, gather and organise complex geographical information and uses an extensive range of written, oral and graphic forms to communicate it effectively.
- exhibits extensive skills to select and proficiently apply geographical tools appropriate to the spatial and ecological dimensions of Australia.
- demonstrates an extensive sense of place of Australian environments and an extensive understanding of the geographical processes that form and transform them.
- explains and analyses different perspectives of geographical issues at a range of scales.
- demonstrates extensive knowledge and understanding of Australian environments and communities, the interactions of people with the environment and the factors that shape communities.
- displays extensive knowledge of civics and analyses links between civics and informed and active citizenship in relation to geographical issues at a range of scales.
Grade B
A student at this grade typically:
- displays high level skills to select, gather, organise and communicate complex geographical information in a broad range of written, oral and graphic forms.
- exhibits high level skills to select and apply geographical tools appropriate to the spatial and ecological dimensions of Australia.
- demonstrates a thorough sense of place of Australian environments and a thorough understanding of the geographical processes that form and transform them.
- explains different perspectives of geographical issues at a range of scales.
- demonstrates thorough knowledge and understanding of Australian environments and communities, the interactions of people with the environment and the factors that shape communities.
- displays thorough knowledge of civics and explains links between civics and informed and active citizenship in relation to geographical issues.
Grade C
A student at this grade typically:
- displays sound skills to select, gather, organise and communicate geographical information using a range of written, oral and graphic forms.
- exhibits sound skills to select and apply geographical tools appropriate to the spatial and ecological dimensions of Australia.
- demonstrates a sound sense of place of Australian environments and adequate understanding of the geographical processes that form and transform them.
- describes different perspectives of geographical issues.
- demonstrates sound knowledge and understanding of Australian environments and communities, the interactions of people with the environment and the factors that shape communities.
- displays broad knowledge of civics and describes links between civics and informed and active citizenship.
Grade D
A student at this grade typically:
- displays basic skills to select, gather, organise and communicate geographical information using a range of written, oral and graphic forms.
- exhibits some skills to select and apply geographical tools appropriate to a range of spatial and ecological dimensions of Australia.
- demonstrates a basic sense of place of Australian environments and some understanding of the geographical processes that form and transform them.
- outlines different perspectives of Australian geographical issues.
- demonstrates basic knowledge and understanding of Australian environments and communities, a range of interactions of people with the environment and a range of factors that shape communities.
- displays some knowledge of civics and identifies links between civics and citizenship.
Grade E
A student at this grade typically:
- displays very limited skills to select, gather, organise and communicate geographical information using a limited range of written, oral and graphic forms.
- exhibits very limited skills to select and apply geographical tools to some spatial and ecological dimensions of Australia.
- demonstrates some sense of place of Australian environments and identifies some geographical processes that form and transform them.
- recognises some different perspectives of geographical issues.
- demonstrates elementary knowledge and understanding of Australian environments and communities, some interactions of people with the environment and some factors that shape communities.
- identifies some aspects of civics and recognises some links between civics and citizenship.