G20 Fieldwork personal learning checklist

GCSE AQA Geography 8035 · Paper 3 | Core topic

Use your actual school enquiries and results.

Name ____________________ Class __________ Date __________

Tick one box per statement. Red: need help. Amber: partly confident. Green: can do independently.

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Own enquiries and planning
Describe both actual enquiries' titles, locations, contrasting environments and physical-human connections.
Formulate a focused geographical question or hypothesis supported by theory and suitable sites.
Select and justify primary, secondary, quantitative and qualitative evidence and pilot work.
Safe and representative collection
Explain fieldwork risks, controls, ethical participation, permissions and environmental care.
Compare random, systematic and stratified sampling and justify sample size and coverage.
Design consistent recording sheets and distinguish accuracy, reliability, resolution and systematic error.
Physical and human methods
Describe and justify relevant physical methods, including measurements, calculations, controls and limitations.
Describe and justify relevant human methods, including counts, land use, quality scores, questionnaires and interviews.
Presentation and analysis
Process data transparently and choose, construct and justify suitable graphs, maps or photographs.
Analyse patterns, spread, anomalies and relationships using values, statistics and geographical explanations.
Compare primary findings with secondary evidence, considering dates, boundaries and methods.
Conclusions and evaluation
Reach an evidenced conclusion answering the original question and assessing the hypothesis.
Evaluate methods and conclusions, linking limitations to effects and specific improvements or further data.
Apply the enquiry process to unfamiliar fieldwork without inventing personal results.

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