Assessment Type 1: Geographical Skills and Applications (40%)

Students produce four geographical skills and applications tasks to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of geographical concepts, and to examine geographical features, patterns, and processes.

These tasks may be multimodal, written, and/or oral in form. Together, the four responses comprise a maximum of 4000 words or equivalent in oral or multimodal form. Six minutes in oral or multimodal form is equivalent to 1000 words.

The tasks must be related to aspects of the topics studied, and must include:

• one task from Topic 2: Climate change
• one task from Topic 4: Globalisation
• one task from Topic 5: Transforming global inequality
• one task from any topic or with a focus on geographical skills or fieldwork.

Examples of geographical skills and application tasks could include:

• evaluation of measures to reduce carbon emissions in a specific country
• a case study of the impact of global warming on a specific location
• comparative analysis of ecological footprints in developed and developing countries
• construction and analysis of population pyramids
• an inquiry into a specific example of economic migration or refugee movement
• mapping globalisation patterns using appropriate spatial technologies
• a report on the impact of globalisation on an Indigenous culture
• an oral or multimodal presentation about an aspect of global inequality
• a decision-making exercise evaluating possible responses by non-government organisations or corporations to an example of inequality
• a proposal or recommendation to support local business in competition with multinationals.

For this assessment type, students provide evidence of their learning in relation to the following assessment design criteria:

• knowledge and understanding
• analysis and evaluation
• application.