2019 Year 7 Assessment Task 2 Notification

Department Geography
Course Year 7 – Landforms and Landscapes
Due Term 2, Week 8 – Week B

Wednesday 19th June, 2019

Period 1 – Mrs Yeowell’s B 3 class
Period 2 - Mrs Yeowell’s B 2 class
Period 4 – Mr de Botton’s B4, Mrs Foster’s BV and Mr Inwood’s D4 classes.
Period 5 – Mr Stedman’s A4 class.
Period 7 – Mr de Botton’s A V1, Mr Inwood’s C 2, Mr Reardon’s A 2 and Mr
Stedman’s D 3 classes.

Thursday 20th June, 2019

Period 3 – Mrs Foster’s C 4, Mr Kinnaird’s C V & Mr Manuel’s D 2 classes.
Period 4 – Mr Reardon’s C 3 class.
Period 7 - Mr Crighton’s DV class

Friday 21st June, 2019

Period 6 - Mr Kinnaird’s AV 3 class
Submission Details Students are to submit their visual project to their teacher with respect to
the above dates via USB or under teacher instruction to Google
Classroom.
Task No. 2
Weight 30%
Components Visual Project (completed at home)
Syllabus Outcomes GE4-1, GE4-2, GE 4-3, GE4-4, GE4-7 and GE4-8
Description of Task An at-home Geographical research project
Task Outline
Students will complete research into ONE geomorphic event.
Either a volcanic eruption OR an earthquake OR tsunami OR avalanche or subsidence event.

Students will be given class time to conduct research into their chosen geomorphic event.

Students CANNOT study the Thredbo Landslide of 1997.

The Audio- Visual Presentation with an accompanying 3-4minute speech that covers the
following;
1. The spatial dimension of the selected event (where the event occurred).
2. The geomorphic (or other) processes that caused the event to occur.
3. The impacts of this event (short, medium and longer term). Consider economic, social and/ or
environmental impacts.
4. The responses of individuals, groups and governments (local, state and / or national) to this
event.
5. The management strategies implemented to minimise the severity of future events.

The Audio-Visual presentation may be an iMovie, PowerPoint, Moviemaker or other choice of

production approved by your teacher. It will include your voiceover and be submitted on the due
date on a USB in an .mp4 or .avi file format. This presentation is NOT to exceed 4 minutes.
 Resources
 Landforms and Landscapes - Chapter 3 – pages 106 to 125.
 In class natural hazards booklet
 Exemplar response – Thredbo Landslide (NOT to be used as a student project case study)
 Class notes, handouts, on-line work, TWIG resource (available through the Library)
 Education Perfect

Key Terms

Spatial dimension refers to where the event occurred. Relative and absolute locations should be used.

The term Management strategy is used to describe an approach to solving or addressing a specific issue.
There are two types of management strategies. Hard strategies involve building or making something. For
example, pipes to carry water away or wire mesh nets to stop rock falls.

The second type of strategy are soft strategies. These involve changing the behaviour and attitude of
people. These approaches usually a combination of approaches; for example, education signage that
indicates the likelihood of a hazard event occurring and reminding people of appropriate responses (Have
YOU prepared an Evacuation Plan?)

Short term – less than one year

Medium term – more than one year but less than 5 years

Long term – more than 5 years

NOTE TIMING: ALL CONTENT over 4 minutes will not be considered as having met the marking criteria and will NOT be marked
Marking Criteria Mark
 Demonstrates extensive knowledge and understanding of spatial patterns, processes, impacts, responses and 17 - 20
management strategies of a chosen geomorphic event
 Presents a coherent, detailed, informative and well-structured project
 Uses and successfully integrates, a variety of images, diagrams, photographs and / or statistics in a creative and
informative visual representation
 Presents an engaging and highly informative project of between 3 but no more than 4 minutes.
 Demonstrates thorough knowledge and understanding of spatial patterns, processes, impacts, responses and 13 – 16
management strategies of a chosen geomorphic event
 Presents an informative and logically structured visual project
 Uses and integrates relevant images, diagrams, photographs and/or statistics in an appealing manner
 Presents an informative and interesting project of between 3 to 4 minutes.
 Demonstrates sound knowledge and understanding of spatial patterns, processes, impacts, responses and 9 – 12
management strategies of a chosen geomorphic hazard event
 Presents a sound, adequately detailed and structured project
 Uses fewer examples, maps, statistics, photographs and/or diagrams within their project
 Presents a satisfactory project with relevant details that lasts between 2 to 3 minutes.
 Demonstrates a basic knowledge and understanding of a chosen geomorphic event 5–8
 Presents limited information about the project
 Limited use of examples, maps, diagrams, photographs and/or statistics are provided.
 Presents a brief and general project of approximately 1 to 2 minutes
 Demonstrates limited knowledge of a chosen geomorphic hazard event 1–4
 Presents elementary information about the geomorphic hazard

 Project is poorly structured

 Very limited use of statistics, maps, photographs and diagrams
 Presents a project that runs less than 1 minute.