Enquiry Skills

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Enquiry Skills

Enquiry skills can be broke up in to tow sections

GATHERING TECHNIQUES AND PROCESSING TECHNIQUES

At General level you’ll be asked to name a techniques and justify it with a reason

At Credit you’ll be asked to name a techniques and justify it with reasons.

Gathering Techniques

There are 6 gathering techniques1. Extracting information from maps2. Fielding sketching3. Measuring (rivers, weather)4. Recording observed information on a map5. Observing and recording, traffic flows,

weather)6. Compiling and using questionnaires

EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM MAPS

Example: site of a settlement, land use changes, land use conflicts

Reasons for use: Maps are a good source of information, maps from different times can be used to show changes

FIELDSKETCHING

Examples: Industrial landscapes, river features

Reasons for use: It is more selective than a photograph, can be used to highlight important information, can be used against maps and photos of the past.

MEASURING

Examples, elements of the weather, river depth and flow.

Reasons: provides original data, source of accurate information, weather elements over time to show changes.

FIELDSKETCHING EXAMPLE

Looking to your right. (That’s the one opposite from the left or the window)

Draw a labelled sketch of the view from the classroom.

Features you need to pint out will include, types of housing, transportation links, recent activity.

Date and time your sketch.

RECORDING OBSERVED INFORMATION

Examples: differing land values/uses, sphere of influence of a town/shop

Reasons: a good way of storing observed information, can be stored and used for comparison of information.

OBSERVING AND RECORDING

Examples: Traffic flow, elements of the weather, quality of the environment.

Reasons: gathers information at the source, able to show environment quality, information can be processed, analysed and compared.

PROCESSING TECHNIQUES

Classifying, tabulating and matrixingDrawing graphs (bar, line, pie and scatter)Drawing MapsDrawing cross-sections/transectsAnnotating maps, graphs and field

sketches

Reasons for usingCalculating, Tabulating and Matrixing.

Easier to make sense of information Can be studies and compared to show trends Matrixing is a good way of storing information.

REASONS FOR DRAWING GRAPHS

Bar graphs – Used to compare information – Can be used with maps to combine information with location – Can be used to show +/- values

Line graphs – Show a trend or change over time – Show amount or rate of change, steepness and degree of change

Pie chart – Shows how the amounts are shared out – The relative importance of parts / sectors – Can be put on a map to aid comparison between places

Scatter graph – Way of testing connections between two sets of data

REASONS FOR ANNOTATING MAPS, GRAPHS AND FIELD SKETCHES.

Provide a sample of an area to bring out key features

Enhances information Can be used to name and identify

features Draw attention to relationships, patterns