This rubric has been created to assess your students’ knowledge and understandings at the completion of the Comparing Places Year 3 Geography unit and is paired with the Comparing Places assessment task.
The similarities and differences between places in Australia and neighbouring countries in terms of their natural, managed and constructed features
The similarities and differences between places in terms of their type of settlement, demographic characteristics and the lives of the people who live there, and people’s perceptions of these places
The location of Australia’s neighbouring countries and the diverse characteristics of their places
The main climate types of the world and the similarities and differences between the climates of different places
Similarities and differences between places in terms of their type of settlement, demographic characteristics and the lives of the people who live there
Location of Australia’s neighbouring countries and the diverse characteristics of their places
Main climates of the world and the similarities and differences between the climates of different places
Identify and describe locations and spatial distributions and patterns