Monday, February 22, 2010

Creation of Survey

Dear Marist United & Cactus Juice,

Please refer to update in GRACE blog Term I Week 7 Lesson 6.

Part of your research of the environment involves crafting a survey and seeking response from people who may be interested in what you are researching in. For a survey you must:

1. Identify your target audience (could be the same as your research eg. teenagers who are studying geography, adults who are working in related industries etc.)

2. Think of at least 10 questions that are related to your research. It might by questions relating to people's misconceptions, their awareness of issues, their feelings towards certain issues etc.

3. Extract out 3-5 best questions.

4. Create a survey.

5. Seek out respondents with the survey. Ensure that they are of the correct target audience.

6. Collect back survey.

7. Tabulate results.

8. Find conclusions.

For the upcoming lesson, brainstorm for ideas of questions that are related to your project. At the end of the lesson, you must begin to craft out a suitable survey for your research.

Thanks and best regards,
Mr. Kan Kong Keat

Monday, February 8, 2010

Looking forward to updates

Dear Team Cactus Juice & Marist United,


Please update your blogs with the following information before the next lesson:

1. Screenshot of your worksheets, namely Worksheet 4 & 5 on your theme and your planning.

2. More research that you have done since last update.

I would like to see the direction at which your groups are heading.


Team Cactus Juice:
For now, my idea is that your group is researching on why Singapore has been experiencing tremors recently. You will be also researching why earthquakes has been happening at places which are least expected (eg. Szechuan, Haiti etc.)

Team Marist United:
Your group has been researching on Global Cooling. Perhaps you can do some history searching. Where did this idea come from? Who came out with this idea? What was the response then? How about now? Do you agree with the theory?

Spend some time brainstorming over all the ideas and come out with the framework of our project.

All the best!