Learning Target: To develop skills that will help you investigate a real life problem.
Resources
Today you are going to brain storm all the possible hypotheses you your could investigation on the topic of Climate.
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
