Neighbourhood enquiry pupil version

Blackwood Comp, Ty-Isha Terrace, Blackwood, NP12 1ER

KS 3 Assessment Portfolio

• Year 7

• Unit 2

Blackwood Comprehensive School

Ty-Isha Terrace, Blackwood, NP12 1ER

Neighbourhood Enquiry

• 4 questions to answer

• “An investigation into the characteristics your local area”



CONTENTS Page

4 questions to answer

1. Locate your neighbourhood using maps/images/Google Earth and written descriptions

2. What is the main function of your neighbourhood?

3. What are the main signs of CHANGE in your neighbourhood?

4. What are people opinions of your neighbourhood?



Aspect of Curriculum covered

Skills

• Locate places, environments and patterns

• Understand places, environments and processes

• Investigating

• Communicating

Range

• Study:• Local area: the variation and

change in quality of life in rural and/or urban environments

• Carry out: Group task initially (fieldwork) with individual component (write up)

• Ask:• What are the features, the

processes and patterns of this place?

• How and why is this place changing – what might happen next?



Introduction

Introduce the reader (i.e your teacher) to what it is you are going to write about and include in your project



Question 1

Locate your neighbourhood using maps/images/Google Earth and

written descriptions



SKILL STRAND 3 4 5 6 7 8

Locating places, environments and patterns

Read & use maps

Draw maps

Locations, patterns & Connections

Understanding places,

environments and processes

The features of places

Processes & change

People & environment

Investigating

Asking questions

Collecting & recording info & data

Analysis & findings

CommunicatingViews & opinions

Presenting findings, ideas & information

ContextNeighbourhood Enquiry. 1. Locating your Neighbourhood

He/She has:•Presented locational information using GIS and WORD•Begun to describe the features of the locality

Way forward•Suggest how human and physical processes might explain patterns identified•Use a range of skills/methods to present findings



Use Street View!

My House

Built in 1965



I live in Markham, which is on a mountain. The two largest roads of Markham are Bryn Road and Abernant Road, Bryn Road having 93 houses and Abernant Road having 88 houses. I live in 52 Abernant Road, which is in the heart of the village. As shown on the map, there are two parts of Bryn Road which both finish at dead ends. On the map, the east of Abernant Road leads to Penylan Road, into Argoed. The west area leads to two places, Tredegar and Blackwood. At the bottom left of the map, there are three roads exiting Markham; when facing south-west, the road to the left leads to Cefn Forest, the road to the right leads to Bedwellty common, and the road straight on leads to Aberbargoed.

Written Description


Locating places,

environments and patterns

Read & use maps

Draw maps

Locations, patterns &

Connections

Understanding

places, environme

nts and processes


Processes & change


Investigating

Asking questions

Collecting & recording info

& data

Analysis & findings

Communicating

Views & opinions


ContextNeighbourhood Enquiry. 1. Locating your Neighbourhood

He/She has:•Described the physical nature•Begun to describe the routes between/to nearby settlements

Way forward•Use a range of skills/methods to present findings•Need to use compass direction instead of “bottom left”



Question 2

What is the main function of your neighbourhood?





Read & use maps

Draw maps





Processes & change


Investigating

Asking questions


Analysis & findings



ContextNeighbourhood Enquiry. 2. Function of a settlement

He/She has:•Presented locational information using GIS and WORD (north Arrow and scale automatically assigned using google maps)•Begun to classify the main LAND USES of the locality.

Way forward•Suggest how human and physical processes might explain patterns identified•Copy and paste into word and add text box’s





Read & use maps

Draw maps





Processes & change


Investigating

Asking questions


Analysis & findings



ContextNeighbourhood Enquiry. 2. Function of a settlement

He/She has:•Presented locational information using GIS and WORD•Begun to classify the main LAND USES of the locality.

Way forward•Suggest how human and physical processes might explain patterns identified



Question 3

What are the main signs of CHANGE in your neighbourhood?



Context- Yr 7Neighbourhood Enquiry. 3: Changes in the neighbourhood- Signs of Change

He/She has:

•Described the changes

Way forward•Classify the changes into physical and human•Locate the place on a map•Provide images to show what these changes ACTUALLY look like



Read & use maps

Draw maps





Processes & change


Investigating

Asking questions


Analysis & findings







Read & use maps

Draw maps





Processes & change


Investigating

Asking questions


Analysis & findings




He/She has:

•Compared two maps of two different era’s.•Located the an area from an old/historic photograph•Used GIS image to illustrate the changes which have taken place in that location•Described some of the major changes

Way forward•Classify the changes into physical and human•Include images of these changes





Read & use maps

Draw maps





Processes & change


Investigating

Asking questions


Analysis & findings




He/She has:

•Begun to classify the main LAND USES of the locality.•Located the an area from an old/historic photograph•Used a digital camera to illustrate the changes which have taken place in that location•Described the changes

Way forward•Classify the changes into physical and human•Locate the place on a map(s).



Work on the shafts at Markham was started in 1911. By 1912 the colliery was in full production but this coincided with a general strike. At that time the average wage of a miner employed in Welsh coalfield was 5 shillings. The effect of the strike was that in 1914 minimum wage laws were introduced. Markham Colliery ceased production and was closed in 1986. Now, there is nothing left of the colliery, there is grass where it used to be.

Level 4



Question 4

What are people opinions of your neighbourhood?





Read & use maps

Draw maps





Processes & change


Investigating

Asking questions


Analysis & findings



Analysis of graphical data= TOO BRIEF

Context- Yr 7Neighbourhood Enquiry. 4: People Opinions

He/She has:

•Independently developed a set of CLOSED questions•Sampled a suitable size (15 people asked)•Analysed her findings picking out key points.

Way forward•Produce a graph of results which can also be interpreted/analysed•Point out anomalies and unusual data•Explain any shortfalls in this method





Read & use maps

Draw maps





Processes & change


Investigating

Asking questions


Analysis & findings




He/She has:

•Independently developed a set of CLOSED questions•Sampled a suitable size (15 people asked)•Analysed her findings picking out key points.

Way forward•Produce a graph of results which can also be interpreted/analysed•Point out anomalies and unusual data•Explain any shortfalls in this method





Read & use maps

Draw maps





Processes & change


Investigating

Asking questions


Analysis & findings




He/She has:

•Independently developed a set of CLOSED questions•Sampled a suitable size (10 people asked)•Analysed her findings using bar graphs.

Way forward•Explain any patterns in the results•Point out anomalies and unusual data•Explain any shortfalls in this method





Read & use maps

Draw maps





Processes & change


Investigating

Asking questions


Analysis & findings




He/She has:

•Independently developed CLOSED question•Opinion based•Analysed her findings using simple sketches.

Way forward•Explain any patterns in the results•Point out anomalies and unusual data•Explain any shortfalls in this method



Conclusions

• Complete your project by summing up what you have found out about each question investigated

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