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Year 5 Geography sample assessment - Investigating natural hazards

Image source: Colleges Crossing Flooded-11 (8 January 2011) by lordphantom74 / CC BY 2.0

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

Investigating natural hazards

Description

Students propose actions for reducing the impact of future flooding in an identified area. The findings will be delivered in a multimodal presentation.

Students present their findings about:

  • human interaction with the environment, its contribution to flooding, and its impact
  • flood prevention and mitigation
  • proposed actions to reduce the impact of
    future floods
  • effects of proposed actions.

Spoken/multimodal: Research

Contents:

  • Teacher guidelines (includes cover page)
  • Task-specific standards: Continua
  • Task-specific standards: Matrix
  • Assessment resource: Cartographic conventions 
  • Assessment resource: Evaluating geographical resources 
  • Assessment resource: Sample geographical questions 
  • Assessment resource: Example of an infographic 
  • Student booklet

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

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