guide to chapter 2 methods part 1 planning for the field trip in order to complete this investigation you need to know: o the reasons people visit castleton o where people travel from to visit castleton you need to use as many different techniques as possible to get information, e.g. Select any of the six primary fieldwork techniques below that you are going to use to collect data to complete your investigation. You must use at least 4 techniques listed below: o tax disc count record the origin of 50 cars in car parks located in and around castleton by looking at their tax disc. O bi polar analysis rate attractiveness of a range of locations on a 0 10 scale o attractiveness survey complete survey examining the attractiveness of a range of areas within castleton and its surrounding area o photographs identify human and natural attractions/detractions within the area. Also, look at the coursework support booklet for any relevant data you will use in your investigation.

You should make sure that the results of each question could be used to help prove/disprove your hypothesis. part 2 writing your method when you write your method it needs to be in a way that a student from a different school would be able to follow. You need to go into lots of detail giving reasons for the methods you have chosen. In this section you should: o draw and complete a table to illustrate the methods you have used e.g. Paper to write notes and draw sketches writing up the data collection the main purpose of this section is to show how and why you collected your data. You should say how we organised the location of the sites, how we organised our data collection sheets and what we did on the day.

How did we organised the collection of the data? you should include a map of the sites and a copy of your data collection sheet 2. You should then for each data collected say why we collected the data and describe how we collected it describe the methods used you should do this for the three methods from those collected from the group and for the original your own data collection method remember that you should be looking to place, maps, photographs, diagrams etc. No data should be included in this section thursday 6 nov 2014 our year 8 pupils completed their primary data collection for their common entrance coursework on tuesday, 4th november. This year they are investigating ‘the changing characteristics of the river brett from its source to mouth’. We were very fortunate with the weather for this time of the year and we had glorious sunshine all day which helped to make the day all the more enjoyable and productive. The pupils undertook a variety of data collection methods to record key river characteristics such as velocity, channel width/depth, changes in bedload size and shape at different stages of the rivers course.

We had an extremely enjoyable day out and the field centre were suitably impressed with the pupils application and behaviour. Introduction data collected which hypothesis will it be used to prove or disprove? equipment used how was the data collected? strengths of the data and method of collection weaknesses of the data and method of collection water width the width of the river increases with distance downstream. 3 people tape measure we needed two to three people to obtain data for this measurement. One person stood on one side of the river, the second on the other side and the last person was be recording the results while the measurement was being carried out. Firstly we got one person to stand one side of the river and hold the end of the tape measure where the surface of the water touches the shore then the other person layed the tape measure over the surface of the water to the other side and took the measurement.

Finally, the last person standing would record the results as soon as possible to prevent writing down wrong data. It was primary data data obtained firsthand by the person presenting the data only required a tape measurer simple to use and easy method person recorded data straight away to avoid writing wrong data hardly any chance of human error because it was so straight forward. It was primary data data obtained firsthand by the person presenting the data the method meant that the speed of the cork could've been affected by lots of variables mostly environmental factors which could have given us incorrect results. The wind speed could have either sped up or slowed down the cork, pebbles, and sediments could have hit the cork and slowed it down. The method did not prevent human errors like not stopping the stop watch at the exact right time.

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Due to the circumstances we only had budget equipment which is never going to produce the most accurate results. In different circumstances we could have used more expensive equipment which would have produced more accurate results. Wetted perimeter the wetted perimeter of the river increases with distance downstream. Tape measure 2 people the wetted perimeter was measured much like the rivers width. Once again, two people were needed to take the measurements, as well as a tape measure. Much like the rivers width, the first step was to get both people to stand at opposite ends of the river.

The tape measure was then placed on the waters surface and measured from where water met the river bank, it was measured from the right of the river to the left of the river. To make the results as fair as possible we used a ruler and picked them up every 10 cm without discrimination. After gathering all the pebbles that were needed we then measured their size with the tape measure using the guidelines provided on the sheet from the field centre. It then provided a rating system which helped us judge the roundness sphericity of the pebbles on a scale of 1 5. The sheet also had a table one it which provided space to record how the long the pebble was, how round it was, and lastly the sphericity. We were given the sheet from the field centre to guide us through it step by step so we could hardly go wrong on the method.