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Year 2 Geography sample assessment - My connections to places

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This sample assessment is based on previous versions of the Australian Curriculum.

My connections to places

Description

Children develop geographical skills of inquiry that include:

  • posing geographical questions about places that connect themselves and others
  • interview parents/carers and some significant elders to collect information to answer questions
  • represent places of connection on a labelled map
  • interpret the information they have collected
  • communicate findings in a multimodal presentation
  • reflect on the significance of connections to places.

Spoken/signed and multimodal: Guided research

Contents:

  • Teacher guidelines
  • Task-specific standards: Continua
  • Task-specific standards: Matrix
  • Assessment resource: Sample interview questions
  • Assessment resource: Sample oral presentation transcript
  • Assessment resource: Question starter grid
  • Student booklet

Download the full assessment (contains the documents as Word files):

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