Year+9+Pollution

=__**Year 9 Pollution**__ =

Following your field trip, you need to write up your pollution investigation.

Read all the following documents carefully. They give detailed information and guidelines about the planning, carrying out and writing up of your investigation. You must make sure you include details of **every** stage in your investigation.


 * Aims & Hypotheses
 * Methods
 * Data Presentation
 * Analysis
 * Conclusions

**Follow up Guidelines**

Aims & Hypotheses This section should clearly state the aim of your investigation and you should include all four of your hypotheses. Try to explain why you developed your hypotheses and why you think they will be true. Methods You need to explain in detail how you collected your data. Try to justify your methods of collection. Why did you use each particular method? Try to explain how it is relevant by explaining what data you hoped to collect. Data Presentation It is very important that once you have your data collected, you are able to analyse it. You must ensure you use a suitable method of data presentation. It is a good idea to include some maps to show your study areas. There are also some good methods of data presentation where you may like to include a base map.

Analysis This is a very important section, but probably the most difficult section to write because you have to suggest reasons and give explanations for your findings. You need to explain the patterns you found and account for any anomalies in your data. Don't just rely on the graphs and figures, make sure you back up your findings with more subjective evidence too.

You may like to compare some of your data to this secondary data collected from Ya Ma Tei: Carbon monoxide EC (black carbon content in particulate matter) Nitrous oxide

Conclusions You need to summarise your findings and clearly state whether you proved or disproved each of your hypotheses. (NB it is not a bad thing to disprove a hypothesis)

 Marking criteria for your finished assessment