Recording local views
I can use enquiry to find out what people think about local changes.
Recording local views
I can use enquiry to find out what people think about local changes.
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Key learning points
- Good enquiry questions will help find out what opinions other people have about current changes.
- Interviews and surveys are useful tools, and good questions will get answers that allow patterns to show.
- Surveys or questionnaires with yes / no answers or scores can be easily analysed.
- It is possible to graph the survey results, making it easier for people to understand the findings.
Keywords
Enquiry questions - Enquiry questions set out what you want to find out in your geographical investigation.
Analyse - To analyse is to study something in close detail.
Interview - An interview means talking to people to gather information.
Survey - A survey is a way of collecting information by asking a set of questions.
Common misconception
Children may require some support to generate their own yes/no questions.
You could play the yes/no game to get children thinking about how to elicit answers of just two words.
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text or notes added onto a map or image to add more detail
when something has changed from how it was in the past
the official collection of data about a whole population