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Geography / Year 9 / Geographical Inquiry and Skills / Collecting, recording, evaluating and representing

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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 (ACHGS065)

Elaborations
  • creating a diagram to illustrate the flows of nutrients and energy within a biome, and the alterations to these flows produced by agriculture
  • developing a table to show the types of challenges to food production in Australia compared to other areas of the world, or the ways that places and people are interconnected through trade
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),  Tables (Data),  Graphs (Data representation),  Diagrams,  Human settlements,  Spatial technologies,  Multivariate analysis

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Navigating primary industries into the 21st century

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Topographic maps video

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Time zones

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Population profiles

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Other common graphs

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Latitude and longitude

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Introduction to maps

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Field instruments

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Contours, gradient, relief and aspect

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