Year 7: Investigating Water Scarcity
Marking Rubric
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Excellent
Identifies a range of informed
Inquiry
geographically significant questions to
Questions
frame an inquiry.
Locates and effectively organises
Recording relevant and detailed information
Information from a range of appropriate sources
to answer inquiry questions.
Explains the availability of water
Water Scarcity resources in one country in North
Africa.
Explains the causes and effects of
Causes and
water scarcity in one country in North
Impacts
Africa.
Explains the management strategies
Current in one country in North Africa
Management AND/OR explains possible strategies
Strategies to improve water management in the
future.
Accurately represents data and
information about water scarcity in
Graphs and
graphs and a special purpose map
Maps
that conforms to conventions
(BOLTSS).
Presents findings clearly and
purposefully in a poster display that
Terminology
uses a range of relevant geographical
terminology.
High
Identifies a range of geographically
significant questions to frame an
inquiry.
Locates and organises relevant
information from a range of
appropriate sources to answer inquiry
questions.
Describes, in detail, the availability of
water resources in one country in
North Africa.
Describes, in detail, the causes and
effects of water scarcity one country
in North Africa.
Discusses, in detail, the management
strategies in one country in North
Africa AND/OR discusses, in detail,
possible strategies to improve water
management in the future.
Appropriately represents data and
information about water scarcity in
graphs and a special purpose map
that conforms to conventions
(BOLTSS).
Presents findings in a poster display
that uses a range of relevant
geographical terminology.
Competent
Identifies geographically significant
questions to frame an inquiry.
Locates and records information from
a range of sources to answer inquiry
questions.
Describes the availability of water
resources in one country in North
Africa.
Describes some of the causes and/or
effects of water scarcity one country
in North Africa.
Describes the management strategies
in one country in North Africa
AND/OR describes possible strategies
to improve water management in the
future.
Represents data and information
about water scarcity in graphs and a
special purpose map that conforms to
some conventions (BOLTSS).
Presents findings in a poster display
that uses geographical terminology.
Developing
Identifies a narrow range of
geographically questions related to an
inquiry.
Locates and copies information
and/or data from a narrow range of
sources using a provided format.
Makes general statements about
water scarcity.
Lists some of the causes and effects
of water scarcity.
Identifies some simple strategies to
manage water scarcity AND/OR states
actions related to water management
in the future.
Partially represents data and
information about water scarcity in
simple graphs and a special purpose
map.
Presents findings in a poster display
that uses a narrow range of
geographical terminology.