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:
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Clarifies the requirements of the standard
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Supports good assessment practice
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Should be subjected to the school’s usual assessment quality assurance
process
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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
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.
To support internal assessment from 2011
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.
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Internal assessment resource Geography 1.7A for Achievement Standard 91013
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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:
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the global pattern of the topic selected
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the cause(s) that contribute to this pattern
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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:
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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;
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fully describe the factors and/or processes that are responsible for the distribution of
youthful and ageing populations, using specific information;
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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:
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computer access
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atlases
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blank world maps (for annotation)
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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)
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population pyramids (these can be downloaded from the U.S. Census Bureau
International Database at http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb)
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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.
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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:
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consider Internet safety and privacy issues
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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.
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Internal assessment resource Geography 1.7A for Achievement Standard 91013
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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
Describe aspects of a
geographic topic at a global
scale.
Achievement with Merit
Achievement with
Excellence
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.)
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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.
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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:
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positive and negative impacts
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long and short term effects
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other significant impacts on people, including both individuals and groups
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different parts of the world (regions, nations, continents, hemispheres).
Include this account with your slideshow.
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