eBook
Using Excel - Some Tutorials
We recommend that students use Microsoft Excel to process their data. While Google Sheets is becoming increasingly sophisiticated, it is still not as powerful in its graphing and statistical features....
eBook
Writing About Data Free
You've planned your research, collected your data, collated it and analysed it. Now you need to tell the world what you have discovered! It is important that your report tells a cohesive, concise story...
eBook
Collecting Your Data Free
In this section we will look at some fundamentals that need to be understood in order to collect and analyse data. This will include population vs sample, sample sizes, sampling techniques, types of data...
eBook
Potential Sampling Biases
Each method of choosing a sample from a population has potential biases. This section explains the process, advantages and disadvantages of each method. Potential Sampling Biases The table below shows...
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Assessment
Skills: trends and patterns in graphs
Graph questions can appear straightforward but they can still be tricky without some prior practice. Read through this page and try the questions in order to improve your graph skills Hints and Tips Example...
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Assessment
Skills: percentage and percentage change
Skills needed In order to calculate % change use the following formula. You will not be given the formula in the exam so you must know how to do it from memory. Percentage Change = (New Value - Old Value)...
Activities
Indigenous Fire Management Part II
In this activity students will practice transforming information into graphical representations, including food webs, system diagrams and flow charts. This is a good opportunity to revisit learning from...
Activities
Indigenous Fire Management - Part 1
Indigenous societies often have a sense of intergenerational responsibility; a legacy mindset as described by Roman Krznaric in his book, The Good Ancestor, published in 2020. Practices that evolved over...
Activities
What happened to all the snow crabs?
What happened to all the snow crabs? This activity featuring facts, videos and images helps students understand more about one of the factors that lead to the ban on snow crab fishing in the Bering Sea...
Activities
Revision activity: Lake Shinji, Japan.
This activity will help you apply all your ESS knowledge to understand the human impact of insecticide use in a brackish water lake in Japan. I first heard about this case by reading George Monbiot's...