Geography / Year 7 / Geographical Inquiry and Skills / Collecting, recording, evaluating and representing

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Curriculum content descriptions

Represent data in a range of appropriate forms, for example climate graphs, compound column graphs, population pyramids, tables, field sketches and annotated diagrams, with and without the use of digital and spatial technologies (ACHGS049)

Elaborations
  • constructing tables, graphs, maps and diagrams to represent the data collected about water scarcity and liveability of places
  • creating an annotated diagram to show: how water flows through the environment and connects places; or the influence of environmental quality on the liveability of places
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Maps (Geographic location),  Evaluation,  Tables (Data),  Graphs (Data representation),  Diagrams,  Human settlements,  Spatial technologies

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