Level 1 Geography Internal Assessment Resource

Internal assessment resource Geography 1.7A for Achievement Standard 91013

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Internal Assessment Resource

Geography Level 1

This resource supports assessment against:
Achievement Standard 91013
Describe aspects of a geographic topic at a global scale
Resource title: Pushchair or Zimmer Frame?
3 credits
This resource:
· Clarifies the requirements of the standard
· Supports good assessment practice
· Should be subjected to the school’s usual assessment quality assurance process
· Should be modified to make the context relevant to students in their school environment and ensure that submitted evidence is authentic
Date version published by Ministry of Education / December 2010
To support internal assessment from 2011
Authenticity of evidence / Teachers must manage authenticity for any assessment from a public source, because students may have access to the assessment schedule or student exemplar material.
Using this assessment resource without modification may mean that students work is not authentic. The teacher may need to change figures, measurements or data sources or set a different context or topic to be investigated or a different text to read or perform.

Internal Assessment Resource

Achievement Standard Geography 91013: Describe aspects of a geographic topic at a global scale

Resource Reference: Geography 1.7A

Resource Title: Pushchair or Zimmer Frame?

Credits: 3

Teacher guidelines

The following guidelines are supplied to ensure that teachers can carry out valid and consistent assessment using this internal assessment resource.

Teachers need to be very familiar with the outcome being assessed by Achievement Standard Geography 91013. The achievement criteria and the explanatory notes contain information, definitions, and requirements that are crucial when interpreting the standard and assessing students against it.

Context/setting

This assessment activity requires students to fully describe:

· the global pattern of the topic selected

· the cause(s) that contribute to this pattern

· the significance of the topic in people’s lives.

This assessment resource focuses on the distribution of youthful and ageing populations.

Students will prepare a PowerPoint slideshow as if they are to deliver it at a global geography conference. In their slideshow, students will:

· fully describe the global pattern shown by the distribution of youthful and ageing populations. To show this pattern, students can use a world map displaying the patterns of youthful and aging populations. They should refer to spatial patterns (patterns over space) that have occurred;

· fully describe the factors and/or processes that are responsible for the distribution of youthful and ageing populations, using specific information;

· fully describe how the distribution of youthful and ageing populations is significant for people in different parts of the world.

Students should refer to different parts of the world (regions, nations, continents, hemispheres) in their descriptions.

Note: The students are not required to present their slideshows to the class. You will assess only the slideshows themselves. Provide students with initial guidance in using PowerPoint to set up their slideshows.

Conditions

This assessment activity takes place over a minimum of four hours of in-class time. However, provide sufficient time for all students to complete the activity. Students may spend additional time outside of class to complete this assessment activity.

Resource requirements

Provide students with:

· computer access

· atlases

· blank world maps (for annotation)

· world maps showing the global median age (these can be downloaded from CIA – The World Factbook at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html)

· population pyramids (these can be downloaded from the U.S. Census Bureau International Database at http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb)

· other resources, such as newspaper and online articles, which illustrate the global patterns of youthful and ageing populations. Students may also bring additional resources from home.

· A starting point for maps of Global population patterns could be http://maps.howstuffworks.com/world-youthful-population-map.htm

Additional information

Before beginning this assessment activity:

· consider Internet safety and privacy issues

· ensure that students understand the nature of spatial patterns around the world and the factors that may be responsible for these patterns. These factors may be physical, social, historic, or economic.

Internal Assessment Resource

Achievement Standard Geography 91013: Describe aspects of a geographic topic at a global scale

Resource Reference: Geography 1.7A

Resource Title: Pushchair or Zimmer Frame?

Credits: 3

Achievement / Achievement with Merit / Achievement with Excellence /
Describe aspects of a geographic topic at a global scale. / Describe, in depth, aspects of a geographic topic at a global scale. / Comprehensively describe aspects of a geographic topic at a global scale

Student instructions

Introduction

This assessment activity requires you to fully describe the global pattern of youthful and ageing populations, fully describe causes of these patterns, and fully describe how youthful and ageing populations are of significance for people in different parts of the world.

You will prepare this information as a PowerPoint slideshow. Design your slideshow as if you are going to present it at a global geography conference. (Note that you are not required to present your slideshow.)

Complete this activity over four periods of class time. Your teacher will provide you with resources; you can also spend time outside of class to collect further information on the topic.

Task 1

This task requires you to create a PowerPoint slideshow about the global pattern of youthful and ageing populations. Use the resources your teacher has provided as well as other information you have gathered to do the following:

1. Describe comprehensively the global pattern shown by the distribution of youthful and ageing populations:

a) You are to find a map of the world which displays a pattern showing the main areas with (i) youthful populations and (ii) ageing populations. Use this map in your presentation.

b) Fully describe the pattern shown on the map by annotating the map and/or writing a paragraph (do this in the notes attached to the slide). Refer to specific spatial patterns and to regions or nations across different continents or hemispheres.

2. Identify the factors and/or processes that are responsible for the distribution of youthful populations in different parts of the world. In the notes attached to this slide (or slides), fully describe the factors and or processes responsible. Refer to different parts of the world in your answer.

3. Identify the factors and/or processes that are responsible for the distribution of ageing populations in different parts of the world. In the notes attached to this slide (or slides), fully describe the factors and or processes responsible. Refer to different parts of the world in your answer.

Task 2

This task requires you to give an in-depth account of how youthful and ageing populations are significant for people in different parts of the world. Refer to regions or nations across different continents or hemispheres within this answer.

In your account, consider:

· positive and negative impacts

· long and short term effects

· other significant impacts on people, including both individuals and groups

· different parts of the world (regions, nations, continents, hemispheres).

Include this account with your slideshow.