Skills Books...

The skills books that I've mentioned are:

AQA Geography Skills - book written specificially for our course, covering GEOG2 (AS) and GEO4a (A2).

and Essential Geographical Skills - a general skills book covering a range of graphical, statistical, cartographic and fieldwork skills...

I've just noticed that there are also guides for GEOG1 and GEOG3 available in the same series as the first book - I've not got copies of them yet, so can't say how useful (or otherwise) they are.

Projects...

Apologies that I forgot to take in your plans this morning - I will have them in on Monday from everyone please!

Dos and don'ts of questionnaire planning and execution this morning... You demonstrated that you know the "right" answers; your task now is to apply them in the questionnaire that you are planning (either linked to school transport, or something that is directly related - and therefore could be used as your pilot - for your own investigation). By Thursday morning, your questionnaire needs to have been written and carried out - you will be analysing your results and then evaluating your questionnaire on Thursday, so if you don't have any results, you will be in something of a mess.

Monday we will look at locations, maps, and get those action plans sorted.

Oh... and this is Survey Monkey!!

Year 12 - Graphs

Lots of different types of graph to think about this morning - remember that although you will not be asked to draw a graph from scratch in an exam, you might well be asked to add points in to complete a graph (as you did in both your Rivers and Population Unit 2 questions on Monday), and you will almost certainly be asked to use a graph of some description in order to answer a question.

If you are able to recognise the different types of graph and get used to reading titles/captions carefully and looking at the axes labels properly, then those sorts of questions are a doddle.

Check back to your Skills Checklist in the Handbook for a reminder of the graphs you need to be able to work with.

Scintillating Statistics! And two important reminders...

A bit of an adventure across the road this morning for Year 12... The lesson was spent thinking about statistics - and specifically measures of central tendency.

You need to understand:
- mean, mode and median
- standard deviation
- range and interquartile range
- box-and-whisker plots

You will not be asked to calculate things like standard deviation or Spearman Rank from scratch in an exam, and nor are you expected to learn the formulae. You may, however, be given a partially completed calculation to work with, and it is important that you understand a) how the calculations work, and b) why they are useful from a geography point-of-view.

Remember that you have the "skills checklist" from the specification in the handbook I gave you at the beginning of the year.

Assessment Week
Please don't forget that next week is Year 12 Assessment Week, and so in your lesson on Monday you will be completing an exam question - under exam conditions. As it is not too long until your Unit 2 exam (12th January), we have decided that the most useful thing would be for you to do a skills-based paper. Your exam in January will be skills-based, but will use content from either the Population unit or the Rivers unit, and then there will be generic fieldwork questions. The paper you do on Monday will have some Rivers and some Population questions (skills-based) and some generic fieldwork questions.

Boscastle Movies
Need to be finished for Monday if they are not already!!