Grassington Coursework

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Introduction

Visit Grassington by clicking on the link below to remind you of your trip.

For photos, maps and other information K drive:Geography/

Introduction

Title: What impact has tourism had on Grassington?

Aim: An investigation into the impact of tourism on Grassington, a honeypot site in the Yorkshire Dales.

Write out the title and aim, then explain the terms impact and honeypot.

Objectives

Key questions 1. Do Shops and services cater for

tourists rather than residents ? 2. Is transport in Grassington

threatening the qualities that attract people to the town.

3. How has tourism been managed? 4. Are the aims of the NP being met?

Objectives

Write out the objectives. For each objective explain what it

means and how it will help you do your enquiry.

Location

Where is Grassington. Include a map. Why was Grassington chosen for

your enquiry?

Method Describe the data you are going to collect Take each key question in turn and

describe the data you need and how you will collect it.

State if you are using secondary data rather than the collecting it yourself.

Clearly describe how you collected the data.

Justify the way in which you gathered the data e.g. why were the sites chosen for the traffic count.

Data collection

Show the data you have collected in the form of tables, original sketches and annotated maps.

Collate all the questionnaire results and present them in a table.

Problems

List any problems you encountered on the day when collecting the data.

How did you overcome these.

Data presentation

Select data to be presented Use appropriate presentation techniques Field sketches labelled; photographs

labelled: Bar graphs; flow line graph; pie Chart; Line graph; proportional bar; isoline graph; overlay diagrams

Use your imagination Demonstrate your skills neatly. You must

use some ICT

Analysis & Conclusion

Describe what the data shows On each graph/sketch etc where you

have show the results of your field work.

State what it shows you, even label the graph etc

Each graph/diagram must be fully labelled or you lose marks.

Links

Make links between data. A link means that one piece of data

that you collected is connected to something else e.g. number of visitors could be connected to the number of cars arriving in Grassington.

Analysis

Take each Key question – what does the data show?

Does it answer the question? If so say why. If not say why. Does this relate to any theory?

Conclusion

Look at the aim of the project – have you successfully completed the aim

How have you done this? Prove in a couple of paragraphs that

you have done this.

Evaluation

Did your study have any limitations.

How could you have improved your study?

Could it have been done better? Explain your answers.

Planning and organisation Make sure you have done the following things. The project is in order. It is easy to read All sketches graphs etc have titles and labels ICT is part of the project ( include diagrams as part of the

text You have checked your spellings, punctuation and grammar You have numbered the pages You have a contents page You have a bibliography