Geography Controlled Assessment Fieldwork

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Getting Started: Thinking about Controlled Assessments

Find someone who can tell you : • one thing about controlled assessments • one question they have about them • tick when the question is answered • where they last went on holiday

Overview of session

• Outline the structure of the Controlled Assessment and what topics are available for the fieldwork investigation • Identify a range of different techniques which could be used to support GCSE students doing a fieldwork enquiry • Consider the impact this might have on your GCSE fieldwork

25% Controlled Assessment: How many tasks? AQA A Edexcel A Edexcel B OCR A

Only one task? yes

no

AQA B 15% fieldwork investigation & 10% issues research investigation OCR B fieldwork enquiry (1200 words) & geographical investigation focused on secondary data (800 words) WJEC A 10% fieldwork enquiry & 15% Geographical enquiry - DME WJEC B 15% fieldwork enquiry & 10% Geographical enquiry - Research

Fieldwork Enquiry Process Task set by Exam board

High

Planning (2-5 hours): - Construct question/hypotheses - Locate study area - Identify key concepts and relate to the environment and enquiry

Limited

Data collection (1 day + write up): Limited - Describe and justify these methods, (collaborative data collection) - Collate and sort information collected Data Presentation (2-6 hours): - Different techniques - ICT and GIS (?)

Limited

Analysis , Conclusions and Evaluation (4-8 hours)

High

AQA A • Rocks, Resources and Scenery • Challenge of Weather & Climate • Changing Urban Environments • Changing Rural Environments • Living World • Water on the Land • Ice on the Land • The Coastal Zone Notes: • Population Change - Keeping individual planning data • Globalisation collection element to get full marks • Tourism - ICT assessed - One hypothesis/key question

WJEC A • Variations in the characteristics of a chosen stretch of river. • Factors influencing how and why people’s attitudes to climate change vary. • The goods and/or services we receive from/sell to other countries. • Variations in development in a local area using development indicators. • Variations in the characteristics of a chosen stretch of coastline. • Variations in weather characteristics within a chosen area. • An investigation of the characteristics of an ecosystem . • The impacts of tourism on a local area. • Retail change in a local area. • Patterns of employment in a specified area. • Why people continue to live a hazard zone. • Population change in a local area.

Notes: - You create the titles (Must change each year) -Only one topic is focused on Wales (from an optional module) -Short Illustrated report (but range of mediums possible)

How this is impacting you? • Similarities & differences between fieldwork you did last year & future fieldwork • What fieldwork do you envisage doing in the future?

The write up: Locating the study Nested Maps and Aerial Photos

Get a map: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/ Google Earth: http://earth.google.co.uk

The write up: Locating the study

Geo-referenced PowerPoint

The write up: Locating the study

Memory Map and Movie Maker

The write up: Locating the study

Examples at: http://www.field-studiescouncil.org/rhydycreuau/

Google Earth Tours

The write up: methods Videos and Pictures • pebbles • velocity

The write up: thinking in the field • Outside Graphs

• ‘Grey’ time & AFL • Mime explanations

Different ways to Present Data Rose diagram showing orientation of clasts from Upper Till at Aberogwen

351-360 18 341-350 331-340 15 321-330 311-320 301-310 291-300

1-10

12 9

11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71-80

6

281-290

3

271-280

0

81-90 91-100

261-270

101-110

251-260

111-120

241-250

121-130

231-240 221-230 211-220 201-210 191-200

131-140

181-190

141-150 151-160 161-170 171-180

Excel spreadsheets

Different ways to Present Data

http://maps.environment-agency.gov.uk

Import layers onto Google Earth

Different ways to Present Data

• Free • Easy to handle lots of data • Easy to ‘play’ and create a range of graphs Google Earth & GE Graphs http://www.sgrillo.net/googleearth/gegraph.htm

Different ways to Present Data

http://www.wordle.net

Conclusions and Evaluations • • • •

High level control Limited ICT scope due to logistics (?) Easier to manage (work never goes home & short write-up) Range of marks are likely Will exam boards lower ‘standards’ or will the high marks some cohorts have historically achieved decrease?

• Outline the structure of the Controlled Assessment and what topics are available for the fieldwork investigation • Identify a range of different techniques which could be used to support GCSE students doing a fieldwork enquiry

• Consider the impact this might have on your GCSE fieldwork

Any Question?