Geological Newspaper Report

500 words. Due Monday week 10.

GuidelinesA-E Reporting

Imagine time has sped up and geological processes and formations occur in a matter of hours rather than over millions
of years.
Your task is to write a newspaper article describing one such geological process
o Note: we are looking at formations of geologically significant areas, i.e. mountains, rift valleys, oceanic
ridges or trenches, not calamitous events like earthquakes, volcanoes or tsunamis.
You will need to include information on what plate movements contributed to the event and descriptions of what occurs
between the lithosphere and mantle both before and after the event occurs.
Include pictures or diagrams where relevant and you are free to use your imagination to add interesting detail such as
human impact or other consequences.
o Think laterally here. How would peoples living situation change if a mountain formed beneath them? How would
the way we gather food change (e.g. fishing if a trench formed)?
Rubric is on the following page

A :Excellent

B: Good

C : Satisfactory

D: Partial

E: Minimal

Resource DECD Reporting

Understanding

high level capacity to apply knowledge,

strong capacity to apply
capacity to apply knowledge, skills
Knowledge
skills and understandings in new
knowledge, skills and
and understandings in new
Understanding
contexts
understandings in new contexts
contexts
deep understanding of concepts and
Skills
some depth of understanding of sound understanding of concepts
key ideas and connections between
Capacity to apply in
concepts and key ideas
and key ideas
them
context
thorough knowledge of content
adequate knowledge of content
comprehensive knowledge of content

Knowledge and
Understanding
Depth of
Breadth of

Skills

Contexts
Sophistication of
skills
Level of support

Can explain and justify thinking

Can describe what they have done
Can explain thinking
Can explain essential aspects of
Adequate understanding of two or
Can describe several relevant
concepts and links between them.
more concepts or aspects of a
Applies their understanding to novel
aspects
task. However, these are
Able to integrate parts into a
contexts and/or extending their
understood separately and may
understanding in relation to other
coherent whole and may be
not relate these known concepts
knowledge sets.
conceptualised at a higher level
to broader concepts or systems.
May question or go beyond existing
of abstraction and generalised to An adequate understanding of the
a new topic or area
principles, generalise, theorise and/or
topic.
demonstrate understanding creatively.
Selects appropriate strategy for context
Uses in a range of contexts
Uses in a new context
apply, compare, integrate, analyse,
critique, theorise, hypothesise, create,
explain, classify, describe, list,
explain, predict, conclude,
generalise, reflect, generate, invent,
report, discuss, illustrate, select,
summarise argue, transfer, make a
compose, originate, make an original
narrate, sequence, outline,
plan, solve, examine, compare,
case, justify, evaluate, make a case
separate.
debate, organize
Independent

Independent

Independent

beginning capacity to apply

capacity to apply knowledge, skills
knowledge, skills and
and understandings in familiar
understandings in a familiar
contexts
context
some understanding of concepts
beginning understanding of
and key ideas
concepts and key ideas
basic knowledge of content
limited knowledge of content
Recounts what they have done
when prompted.
Attempts explanation
May have some misconceptions
Adequately understands a single
conceptual issue but not other
essential elements.
May do initial preparation but not
address the task appropriately

Limited ability to explain

Limited engagement with concept
Acquires isolated facts or skills but
fails to organise, connect or
understand the issue or concepts.
Hasnt really understood the point.

Familiar context

Familiar context

recall, recount, define, draw, find,

label, match, name, quote, recite,
order, tell, write, imitate.

limited recall, imitate, name, match,

identify

With support / prompting

With direct supervision