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Fieldwork 1: How Do We Collect Beach Data?

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  • 27 marks
  • about 30 minutes
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Question types: multiple choice, short answer, true or false, matching, ordering.

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A pupil finds last year's rainfall figures for Hornsea on a weather website, for a different project. Is this primary or secondary data if our class uses it in our enquiry?

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About this resource

Two contrasting Yorkshire beaches, one defended and one not. We write our enquiry question, choose our method and equipment, and get ready to collect the data (illustrative, not measured).

16 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Teach — the two sites: Hornsea and Skipsea, same coast, same geology, defence the variable
  5. Teach — The Enquiry Process
  6. Task — Write Today's Enquiry Question and Hypothesis
  7. Teach — The Equipment
  8. Teach — What a Field Sketch Shows
  9. Teach — The Method Table
  10. Task — Match Each Hazard to Its Control
  11. Hinge Check
  12. Task — The Site Map and Our Sampling Strategy
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