Geography.pdf

1. Contextual knowledge of locations and places:
- Grade 9: Accurately recall precise information about physical and human environments.
- Grade 8: Accurately recall detailed information about characteristics of physical and human environments.
- Grade 7: Recall detailed information about physical and human environments.
- Grade 6: Recall some accurate detail about physical and human environments.
- Grade 5: Recall a wider variety of information about physical and human environments.

2. Understanding of Patterns, Processes and Environmental Change:
- Grade 9: Explain interactions between complex geographical processes with precise accuracy.
- Grade 8: Explain links and interactions between geographical processes.
- Grade 7: Accurately explain a wide range of geographical processes.
- Grade 6: Accurately explain a range of geographical processes.
- Grade 5: Accurately explain and show relationships between different sequences of events and processes.

3. Competence in geographical enquiry:
- Grade 9: Conduct a geographical enquiry, identify hypotheses, collect and present findings, and analyse data.
- Grade 8: Conduct a geographical enquiry, identify key questions or hypotheses, collect and present findings.
- Grade 7: Conduct a geographical enquiry, identify key questions or hypotheses, and collect and present findings.
- Grade 6: Conduct a geographical enquiry, identify key questions or hypotheses, and collect and present findings.
- Grade 5: Conduct a geographical enquiry, identifying key questions or hypotheses to support, and collect appropriate data.

4. Application of geographical skills:
- Grade 9: Use an extensive range of sophisticated cartographical maps and graphs, and statistical calculations.
- Grade 8: Use an extensive range of geographical skills to describe, interpret, and analyse geographical patterns and trends.
- Grade 7: Precisely identify and describe patterns of human and physical features on maps.
- Grade 6: Accurately identify and describe patterns of human and physical features on maps.
- Grade 5: Use a wide range of map skills to identify and describe human and physical features at different scales.