Guide to Chapter 2 - Methods

Part 1 - Planning for the field trip
In order to complete your investigation you need to think about what information you are going to need to complete your investigation. You need to look at your hypothesis to get ideas for this.

Task 1
You need to use as many different techniques as possible to get information, e.g. interviews, observations, surveys, questionnaires etc. Examples of six primary fieldwork techniques are listed below. These are only suggestions and some of them may not be appropriate to your investigation. Therer are many other techniques available to you! However, you should use at least 4 techniques.

o Tax disc count - record the origin of 50 cars
o Questionnaire - ask people questions.
o Pedestrian Count - count the number of people at several locations.
o Bi Polar analysis - Rate attractiveness of a range of locations on a 0-10 scale
o Attractiveness Survey - Complete survey examining the attractiveness of a range of areas within Castleton and its surrounding area
o Photographs - identify human and natural attractions/detractions within the area.

Task 2
Design a questionnaire that you can ask people when you visit your field trip location (if it is appropriate). You should make sure that the results of each question could be used to help prove/disprove your hypothesis.

Part 2 - Writing your method

When you write your method it needs to be in a way that a student from a different school would be able to follow. You need to go into lots of detail giving reasons for the methods you have chosen. Use your planning sheet to help you. In this section you should:
o Draw and complete a table to illustrate the methods you have used e.g.

Method	Sample Size	Sampling Technique	Day	Date	Time	Weather Conditions

o Describe how you will gather each piece of information and give reasons for your choice of method

o Explain how the information you collect will help you answer the question Make sure this is done for any secondary data that you are going to use

MAKE SURE YOU IDENTIFY THE DATA COLLECTION METHODS YOU WILL DO AND THOSE YOU WILL DO IN A GROUP