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Geography / Year 10 / Geographical Inquiry and Skills / Collecting, recording, evaluating and representing
Curriculum content descriptions
Evaluate sources for their reliability, bias and usefulness and select, collect, record and organise relevant geographical data and information, using ethical protocols, from a range of appropriate primary and secondary sources (ACHGS073)
Elaborations
- gathering relevant data from a range of primary sources (for example, from observation and annotated field sketches, conducting surveys, interviews and experiments, or taking photographs) about human-induced environmental changes
- collecting geographical information from secondary sources (for example, topographic maps, thematic maps, choropleth maps, weather maps, climate graphs, compound column graphs and population pyramids, scatter plots, tables, satellite images and aerial photographs, reports, census data and the media)
- collecting quantitative and qualitative data using ethical research methods, including the use of protocols for consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
- using Gapminder or United Nations statistics to collect data on countries to answer an inquiry question
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Data collection, Ethics, Human settlements, Geographic location, Information management