This booklet must be brought to EVERY lesson.
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GCSE coursework
Question:
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Hypothesis:
 All candidates must complete one piece of coursework.
 Coursework must involve data collection in the field and take the form of an
investigation.
 In order to gain a Level 3, you will need to visit another settlement with which to compare Castleton (or revisit Castleton) and repeat your data collection which should be included in your aims.
 The coursework should be 2500 words (approx) in length.
 The coursework represents 25% of the final GCSE mark – you should spend an appropriate amount of time preparing for it, carrying it out and completing it.
 Candidates must use ICT at appropriate points (at least two types). Any word processed work must be using an ‘appropriate’ font which is no larger than size
12, it must also be spaced at 1.5 lines (format  paragraph  line spacing 
1.5).
Assessment Criteria:
Strand
Applied Understanding
Methodology
Data Presentation
Data Interpretation
Evaluation
Total
Available marks
6
6
6
6
6
30
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Deadlines: (submission date is your first geography lesson of the week)
Coursework planning & data collection
Introduction (including maps) – fwk visits this week
Methodology
 Revisit Castleton for comparison visit
 Develop photos
 Re-write Introduction & Methodology
Data Presentation (part 1)
Data Presentation (part 2)
Data Interpretation
Evaluation
Completed coursework submitted
Work Experience
29 th June – 10 th July
Marking and moderation
Marks distributed w/b 5 th May w/b 11 th May w/b 18 th May w/b 25 th May w/b 1 st June w/b 8 th June w/b 15 th June w/b 22 nd June
Friday 26 th June w/b 13 th July
‘Catch up sessions’: Wednesday lunchtimes these will be an opportunity for you to get support and advice from your teacher, however, if we feel that you need to attend we will insist that you do so.
If you do not submit your work on the date it is due you will be given an
automatic C3 and a letter will be sent home to your parents.
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Planning your investigation
In the space provided below, brainstorm answers to the following questions:
 Where or what is Castleton?
 What is a tourist ‘honeypot’?
 What are the possible impacts of tourism in a honeypot like Castleton?
 How might these impacts be investigated ‘in the field’?
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 What would you need to look at to see whether Castleton is a honeypot? (we might use these as your aims for the data collection day(s))
 What other settlement could you use to compare Castleton to? Why would you chose this settlement? What characteristics does it have that makes it similar to or different from Castleton?
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 State the question you are investigating or your hypothesis.
 Identify the aims of the investigation and explain how these will help to answer the question / hypothesis.
 Describe the location
 Include at least three maps (UK, Peak District & Castleton/contrasting settlement) – with explanations of what the maps show
 Refer to the purpose of the National Park Authority
 Set the scene … what’s Castleton / your contrasting settlement like?
What does Castleton look like? Images of an area can persuade people to visit it. Locate a couple of photographs of Castleton from the web sites (e.g. Peak Cavern) to entice the tourists to visit and copy them into your report and add some captions. www.peakdistricttourism.gov.uk/peakdistrict www.highpeak.co.uk
For your contrasting settlement: www.geograph.co.uk
 Refer to theory / quote from your text book
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Methods for collecting primary data
In order to know if Castleton is a honeypot, we need to find out…
 Is there anything people would want to go and see there?
 Are there a lot of tourists there?
 Are there shops for tourists?
 Does it have a lot of coffee shops / restaurants?
 Are there any B&Bs / hotels?
 Can you buy postcards?
 Are there traffic jams?
 Are there lots of carparks?
 Is there evidence of traffic management?
 Anything else you can think of?
In groups, think of ways you could collect information for the above.
If Castleton has these, remember you will need to look at another town / village near you to see if every settlement has these characteristics.
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Library
What methods or techniques are you going to use to collect your secondary data?
Where?
Internet
Which site(s)?
Newspaper
Which paper(s)?
Bus/rail timetables
Which one(s)?
Letter writing
Who to?
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1.
Introductory sentence which includes an explanation of the difference between primary and secondary techniques. Write up the primary techniques first under the heading ‘Primary techniques’ following the instructions in numbers 2 and 3, then, write up the secondary techniques under the heading ‘Secondary techniques’ following the instructions in number 4.
2. Write up each of your data collection methods under a separate heading e.g.
Traffic Count, you should state:
 What you did?
 Why you did it?
 How you went about collecting that data?
 Where did you collect it? Why did you chose that location?
 When did you do it? Why did you chose that time?
 Which aim does this help you to address? (e.g. in order to see if there are traffic issues which are common in honeypots, we counted cars, traffic jams, empty spaces in car parks, this links with Aim number X)
 How you will present your data and why this is the most appropriate technique?
Remember, you should try to include 7 data collection methods
3. For each method you should include an annotated copy of the data collection table / map you used to collect your data. E.g traffic count sheet and
Environmental Quality Survey sheet
4. Secondary techniques - Explain why you chose these sources of information and why these sources are appropriate for your study.
 Why did you chose it
 Which aim does this help you to address?
5. Make sure you include an annotated data collection map to show where the data was collected.
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In order to get into level 3 for your Methodology, you must show evidence of
‘originality’ ... here are some suggestions:
 Compare Castleton with another honeypot e.g. Matlock Bath so that you can say it shares many of the characteristics of that well known honeypot you will need to repeat the data collection to compare it to your original results
OR
 Compare Castleton to another similar sized village e.g. Tansley,
Crich, Ashover you will need to repeat the data collection to compare it to your original results
OR
 Visit Castleton on a Bank Holiday weekend – you will need to repeat the data collection to compare it to your original results.
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Data Presentation-write up advice
You must show a range of types of data presentation. These should include:
 Located bar graphs of your Environmental Quality Survey
 Flow maps of your traffic / people counts
 Bar / line graphs of Peak District stats
 Annotated photographs / sketches
 Pictograms of types of shops from the Land Use Map
The mark scheme indicates that you must use a range of types and it acknowledges that some are more ‘complex’ than others (and therefore worth more marks).
Each type of data presented must be fully annotated (this is where you will pick up marks for understanding) – you should refer to the aim that this piece of data is linked to.
Drawing a located bar graph
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Look carefully at data that needs to be put on graph / map
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Decide on the scale that will best allow you to put all of your data on the map.
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Draw your located bars in the correct position using a ruler and a pencil.
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Draw your scale onto the map – as a key
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Don’t forget to include a title.
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6. Annotate your graph.
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Secondary Data
You may use these if you wish, it will save you going to the local council offices for the information
Peak District population stats
Bamford
Castleton
1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001
1099 1077 1078 1057 1089
650 608 586 701 689
Hathersage 1382 1476 1410 1352 1416
Hope
Winnats Pass Traffic Flows
(Typical Summer Sunday)
July
1996
3759
August
4001
771
July
794
2006
4949
August
4860
843 912 900
Draw two divided bar graphs to show this data.
Annual visits to the most popular areas in the Peak District National Park
Total visits % Hiking % Sightseeing
3,120,000 4 33 Lower Derwent (including
Chatsworth)
Wye Valley
(including Bakewell)
Hope Valley
(including Castleton)
2,560,000
2,220,000
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Dove and Manifold Valleys 2,050,000
Upper Derwent 1,249,000
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Much of your data interpretation will be done on your graphs / maps / photos as text box annotations (hand written is fine!). However you must also show an understanding of how you have answered each aim by writing a conclusion.
You should organise your writing of this section by using each aim as a subheading. You must then suggest what you found out about this by referring to numbered maps/photos/graphs. e.g. Most tourist honeypots have traffic problems, my aim was to investigate traffic issues. So you should put ‘investigating traffic issues’ as a sub-heading. Then go on to explain how the information you collected from your two data collection days helps answer the question.
You must link the different pieces of evidence to gain full marks. E.g.
Graph X shows that there are lots of cars in the car park, which photo Y supports.
Your must include an overall concluding paragraph in which you state whether you can accept or reject your hypothesis or in which you answer your question.
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In this section you need to show the validity (how good you think it was) and
limitations (the problems) of the evidence and conclusions you have reached.
The evaluation must show that you understand why some parts of your study went well and why some bits didn’t but the examiner doesn’t need to know things like:
‘I have enjoyed this, it was a good project’
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To write up the evaluation use each of the following questions to form the basis for a paragraph of writing – use the questions in italics as a check list to ensure that you have completed all aspects of each paragraph.
How reliable were your methods?
 Which pieces of data were most useful and why?
 Was data collected from enough different situations?
 Were your sampling techniques reasonable?
 Could your sampling methods be improved?
 How could your sampling methods be improved? For example, what additional data would have been useful? (You must give lots of information here, for example, if you suggest a questionnaire, you should give examples of two or three questions you would ask – and most importantly, say why you would ask them).
How accurate were the results?
 How reliable was the data and other information you collected and presented?
How valid are the conclusions?
 Was your final conclusion reasonable and true in terms of the data you collected? If not, why not?
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Glossary
It is always a good idea to use geographical vocabulary in a piece of coursework to show the examiner that you really are a geographer!
You do not need to include all of these words, but try to use as many as possible – any of these words you include should be put in bold or underlined throughout the entire piece of coursework.
 accessible
 commuter
 congestion
 conservation
 counter-urbanisation
 diversification
 economic growth
 environment
 exploit
 footpath erosion
 fragile environment
 honeypot
 infrastructure
 limestone
 low order goods
 mixed farming
 National Park
 over-commercialisation
 primary industry
 recreation
 seasonal employment
 second homes
 secondary industry
 sedimentary rock
 site
 situation
 sphere of influence
 sustainable development
 sustainable tourism
 tertiary industry
 tourism
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Coursework Checklist
Make sure you have covered each section (sections in bold below)
This coursework … Has Needs
A front cover
A table of contents
An Introduction …
…with a map,
…which describes the aims,
…which describes the Castleton area,
...which describes the other area you have chosen
… and a glossary of key Geographical terms
A Methodology with …
…an annotated questionnaire
…annotated letters and interviews
… a map showing where the data was collected
A variety of data presentation techniques…
…maps and graphs that are hand drawn
…located bar chart(s)
…fully annotated photographs
…all graphs and tables with annotation
…all graphs and tables with a title and a number
…all axes labelled on graphs
Data interpretation that refers to …
…primary data
…secondary data
…and a detailed conclusion relating to original aims
…with ideas fully developed and explored
… with links between different sets of data identified
Evaluation that is meaningful…
…can you tick all boxes on the ‘help sheet’?
An appendix containing completed questionnaires and relevant leaflets etc.
To ensure you pick up marks for organisation, check that you have included:
At least two different types of ICT
Bibliography
Page numbers (do this right at the end)
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