Geography / Year 10 / Geographical Inquiry and Skills / Collecting, recording, evaluating and representing

Curriculum content descriptions

Represent multi-variable data in a range of appropriate forms, for example scatter plots, tables, field sketches and annotated diagrams, with and without the use of digital and spatial technologies (ACHGS074)

Elaborations
  • developing a table to show the responses to environmental change in a particular environment
  • using scatter plots of data for countries or smaller areas to investigate the relationship between two variables (for example, per capita income and life expectancy for countries) and to identify anomalies
  • using digital technologies such as Gapminder to support the illustration and analysis of geographical variables
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Sampling bias,  Reliability,  Tables (Data),  Graphs (Data representation),  Diagrams,  Human settlements,  Spatial technologies,  Multivariate analysis

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