“Dawlish Warren is Managed Effectively”

Hypothesis:

Use your mind map of an effective coastal management scheme to choose 3 key questions to investigate. The answers will help you prove the hypothesis true or false.

Identify 4/5 geographical concepts that will underpin your project

• Processes in the formation and erosion of a spit • Visitor honeypot• Sustainable management• Coastal defences + advantages and problems / environmental

impact• Species diversity• Coastal processes Longshore drift / deposition• Hard & Soft engineering strategies• Land use conflicts• Different habitats – beach / sand dunes / mudflats /

saltmarsh

Plan a minimum of 4/5 methods. You must plan your OWN methods, create recording sheets and identify / make any

recording equipment

How much data do you need to collect for it to be meaningful?

How will you collect data? Systematic? Stratified? Random? This will need deciding before you go!

Where will you collect data and why? Be able to make a map showing fieldwork locations

Time / date / weather can all be significant in data collection. Make sure to include them on recording sheets

Methods MUST be justified in terms of how they address the hypothesis/ key questions / concepts.

Finally, think about how you will present your results. Your methods MUST allow you to able to

do several of these…• Maps• Well annotated photos and sketches• Data overlays• Graphs and Charts• Cross sections / Beach profiles• Proportional flow diagrams• Choropleth maps• Proportional symbols on maps• Scatter graphs