Year 8: Investigating Natural Hazards
Marking Rubric
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Excellent
Identifies a range of informed
Inquiry
geographically significant questions to
Questions
frame an inquiry.
Locates and effectively organises
Recording relevant and detailed information
Information from a range of appropriate sources
to answer inquiry questions.
Explains the geographical processes
Geographical
that produce one specific landform.
Processes
Causes and Explains the causes and impacts of a
Impacts natural hazard.
Explains the short- and long-term
Responses responses to a natural hazard.
Explains how the application of
principles of prevention, mitigation
Minimising
and preparedness minimises the
the Effects
harmful effects of natural hazards.
Accurately represents data and
information about natural hazards in
Graphs and
graphs and a special purpose map
Maps
that conforms to conventions
(BOLTSS).
Presents findings clearly and
purposefully in a poster display that
Terminology
uses a range of relevant geographical
terminology.
High
Identifies a range of geographically
significant questions to frame an
inquiry.
Locates and organises relevant
information from a range of
appropriate sources to answer inquiry
questions.
Describes, in detail, the geographical
processes that produce one specific
landform.
Describes, in detail, the causes and
impacts of a natural hazard.
Describes, in detail, the short- and
long-term responses to a natural
hazard.
Describes, in detail, how the
application of principles of
prevention, mitigation and
preparedness minimises the harmful
effects of natural hazards.
Appropriately represents data and
information about natural hazards in
graphs and a special purpose map
that conforms to conventions
(BOLTSS).
Presents findings in a poster display
that uses a range of relevant
geographical terminology.
Competent
Identifies geographically significant
questions to frame an inquiry.
Locates and records information from
a range of sources to answer inquiry
questions.
Describes the geographical processes
that produce one specific landform.
Describes the causes and impacts of a
natural hazard.
Describes the short- and long-term
responses to a natural hazard.
Describes how the application of
principles of prevention, mitigation
and/or preparedness minimises the
harmful effects of natural hazards.
Represents data and information
about natural hazards in graphs and a
special purpose map that conforms to
some conventions (BOLTSS).
Presents findings in a poster display
that uses geographical terminology.
Developing
Identifies a narrow range of
geographically questions related to an
inquiry.
Locates and copies information
and/or data from a narrow range of
sources using a provided format.
Recounts aspects of the geographical
processes that produce a specific
landform.
Outlines some of the causes and/or
impacts of a natural hazard.
Identifies some short- and/or long-
term responses to a natural hazard.
Identifies how application of some
principles may minimise the harmful
effects of natural hazards.
Partially represents data and
information about natural hazards in
simple graphs and a special purpose
map.
Presents findings in a poster display
that uses a narrow range of
geographical terminology.