Writing the Methodology
This section is straightforward. You need to describe and explain your choice of fieldwork methods. To ensure that you can access the highest levels of marks, follow the key advice in the slide below:
This section is straightforward. You need to describe and explain your choice of fieldwork methods. To ensure that you can access the highest levels of marks, follow the key advice in the slide below:
The introduction of your project has to be written up at school under my supervison. You won't get any written or oral feedback so pay careful attention to this checklist :)
Zig Zag Groyne (C) Noel Jenkins 2012
You can use any of the pictures in the gallery below in your project BUT you have to mention the source. When using any photo in your project remember...
Dawlish Warren (can be used with acknowledgement)
Please consider uploading your own gallery of photos for the benefit of others.
Really sorry about this dreadful PowerPoint ;)
We used it in the lesson to talk through your planning sheet.
A GIS can be thought of as a digital base map over which layers of data can be displayed. GIS offers powerful ways for geographers to anlyze spatial data and make decisons. Many jobs rely on GIS technology; one reason why geography graduates are very employable. I'd like you to use the MAGIC GIS to find out a little more about Dawlish Warren as part of preparation for your coursework project.
Before you start, be prepared for your computer to run slowly as you will be interacting with an enormous database buried deep in some high security government bunker.
Follow this link to the MAGIC map of Dawlish Warren
After a while you should be looking at a map of Dawlish Warren. The map will be complicated at first, so here are the basic tools you need to use:
To move the map (panning) click this symbol, and then drag the map
Now, lets make sense of the map data. At the moment all the available information is being displayed. Click this button to see all the data layers...
Reload the map or click here if you see this message for too long. While it is common for there to be delays when using GIS, this message also means that data is being collected, so be patient.
Finally, the map tools will let you print off maps, save screen shots, measure distances and a lot more. Just mouse-over the different symbols to find out what each one does.
Now it's time to get mapping...
5 minute GIS Homework task:
1) Create a map that shows the extent of the tourist "honeypot" at Dawlish Warren. This the area outside the Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest.
2) Create a map that shows sand dunes and mudflats of the whole Exe estuary and the location of Dawlish Warren.
Print these maps off if possible. Don't upload to your Posterous. If you have problems with MAGIC the FAQ may help.3) Use Where's The Path? to look at different maps and photos of Dawlish Warren. Follow this link. WTP isn't a real GIS, but it great for visualizing the Dawlish Warren area. It is best to use WTP in the morning, because it is limited in how many OS maps it can show in one day.
During the lesson you worked in groups on a 10 point management plan for Jamaican tourism. Please write this up on your Posterous.
A recent Blackpool advert. Does it work for you?
The Butler Model and Blackpool
Look at this Flickr page by John Burke Choose some images that you feel capture Blackpool at different stages of the Butler model.
This is the final homework for the Coastal Zone unit.
Your task is to create a visitor's guide to Dawlish Warren.
The aim is to make sure that you can describe the habitats of Dawlish Warren and the plants and animals that live there. You also need to be able to explain how Dawlish Warren is conserved and managed sustainably.
I have included links to various information sources. Here is a template for you to download and use if you wish.
Resources
The map you drew in the lesson will be useful. You could label a Google Maps screenshot with information about the different habitats at Dawlish Warren.
Look at these 360 panoramas to see what Dawlish Warren looks like. You can make screenshots to use in your work.
Plants and animals of Dawlish Warren:
Iink 1
Information leaflets:
Information about management issues
Photo gallery of some management strategies
