Learning Target: To develop skills that will help you investigate a real life problem.
Resources
Today you are going read the and critique our example Controlled Assessment Plan.
Sections of your report
Your Statistics project is worth 25% of your final grade. It is marked out of a total of 40 marks, split into sections as detailed below.
- Planning (10 marks)
- Data Collection (8 marks)
- Processing, analysing & representing data (12 marks)
- Interpretation & discussion of results (10 marks)
Grade C: 21
Grade B: 24
Grade A: 28
Helpful guides
Climate - Student Guide
Example Controlled Assessment Plan
PiXL student guide to Controlled Assessment
Possible sources of data
http://www.weather2travel.com/climate-guides/
Gives a variety of monthly climate data for many global holiday destinations
http://www.weatherbase.com
Gives a variety of monthly climate data for many places throughout the world
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
Database of regional land/sea temperature anomalies since 1880
www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/datasets/#
Database of UK climate indicators such as max/min temperatures, sunshine hours, rainfall
and frost days since 1910
http://sharaku.eorc.jaxa.jp/TYP_DB/index_e.shtml
Database of tropical cyclones since 1997
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/greenwch/spot_num.txt
Database of monthly average numbers of sunspots since 1749
http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/meteorology/annual_data.txt
Database of mean ozone hole area and minimum ozone column height since 1979
http://www.born.gov.au
Database for a variety of climate change indicators centred on Australia since 1900
http://www.climate4you.com
Website that discusses various climate change indicators with links to useful databases
