My first full week of geography lessons to blog about and I can remember very little…
So then, the first two lessons of the week were spent working on the Environmental Quality Assessment (EQA) which we’ve already kind of talked about. There are some pretty crucial points to remember when writing an answer to a question about an EQA to make sure you get the full marks:
- Explain the limitations of doing fieldwork i.e. we can’t get there, it’s pretty dangerous, it’s a very sensitive topic etc.
- Explain other possible options and why their limitations mean you won’t do them e.g. questionnaires, imagine if an old woman in Belfast got a questionnaire from every Geography student in the country…
- Explain the importance of GIS (Geographical Information Systems) such as Google Earth and how it can help perform EQAs if it’s not possible to get there.
- Explain the sampling strategy (see previous post)
- Produce 5 categories, pick one and set out guidelines for the scoring system. 1=the best 5=the worst, make sure it’s in depth!!
- Lastly explain what you would do with the stats (mostly likely not much), maybe an isovel graph? I don’t know I can’t do everything.
Friday’s lesson was spent going through the rest of the questions, most of which were relatively simple. Just make sure you know what the key words are particularly comment. To comment on something you need to describe and explain the data. Pick a piece of data which you know a lot about and is interesting. That way you can get the most marks for using your own knowledge.
I am thoroughly bored of Belfast and would love to start tectonics again, it has cool things like this =)
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