Geography Coursework – HELP!!!!!!

Introduction
In this section you need to…
•Explain what the purpose of your study is and where you will be
carrying out the study.
•Outline the hypothesis and explain the three parts of it (natural
landscapes, human pressures and careful management)
Write about what a National Park is, who owns them and why they
are linked to the hypothesis (they are natural landscapes!!!). Try to
put a map of National Parks in England and Wales into your work.
•Explain that you are completing your study in the Peak District
National Park – say where it is, why it is popular, what it is like….
•Explain that there are many large cities and motorways around
National Parks and why this is important to your study. (ie, cities
have lots of people, motorways connect the people to the National
Parks easily and lots of people in National Parks will mean more
human pressures).
•Explain what a honeypot site is and why this connects to your
hypothesis.
Methodology
In this section you need to explain all the data collection
methods you used when in Dovedale.
•Write a paragraph (or several) about each data collection
method which explains the following…
•What the method was.
•Why you did it.
•How you collected the data (imagine you are explaining
this to a spanner).
•How the data will help you prove/disprove your
hypothesis.
•Weaknesses of the method, ie, if you had gone on a
different day…, it was my opinion, therefore… ETC
•DO THIS FOR EACH DATA COLLECTION METHOD AND
THEN MOVE ONTO THE NEXT ONE AND DO THE SAME.
•(Pressures map, management map, questionnaire, field
sketch, viewscore)
Data Presentation

This is where you present your data through maps,

graphs, tables, etc.
 Data Interpretation
•This is where you explain in writing what you found out.
•When you are writing this up, go through each pressure from you pressures map in
turn and follow the structure below…
•Explain where it was worst, with some names of places and numbers from
pressures map.
•Try to give some reasons why this was the case, eg, no litter bins, popular
(according to questionnaire data), picnic site, etc, etc.
•Try to back up what you are saying with evidence from your graphs, maps and
tables, etc.
•Explain where it was least, with some names of places and numbers from pressures
map.
•Try to give some reasons why this was the case, eg, lots of litter bins, not very
popular (according to questionnaire data), etc, etc.
•Try to back up what you are saying with evidence from your graphs, maps and
tables, etc.
•When you have explain all of the above for one pressure, move onto the next and
follow exactly the same structure,

At the end of this section you need to decide whether you have proved / disproved
your hypothesis.
 Evaluation
In this section you need to explain what were the
good/bad parts of your project and how it could be
improved.
Explain what the weaknesses of your data collection
methods were.
Say how these weaknesses may lead your results to be
unreliable.
Explain that if you went on a different day, your results
may have been different, therefore you may come to a
different conclusion when proving/disproving your
hypothesis