1. Setting up your report

Introduction

You will be recording your investigation in the form of a written and illustrated report which will ultimately be submitted for assessment.

Assessment will take place in school in the first instance where it will be marked by your teacher following the strict marking scheme provided by the AQA examinations board. A selection of reports will then be internally moderated by another Geography teacher. Once this is completed the examination board will then request a sample for external moderation/checking.

The controlled assessment is marked out of a total of 60 divided into 6 sub-sections as shown on the mark sheet guide - HERE

To ensure the safety of your work, you will be writing it using your school Google account and Google Drive. Your teacher will take you through the process of accessing your Google account, but once you are in you need to set up a Geography Folder and inside this open a Document to write your report on. This document will need to be shared (with full editing permission) with your teacher...

Set up your document in the following way:

To see an example layout click - HERE

a. Document Title:

FirstNameLastNameCAGeog2016 eg Joe Blogs in Y10 would have a document title as follows...

JoeBlogsCAGeog2016

b. Header:

In your document, add your name and page numbering to the header.

c. Title for the investigation:

e.g. What are the economic and environmental impacts of being a honeypot site for the tourist destination of Windsor?

d. Table of Contents:

From the "Add-Ons" menu, get the Table of Contents App. and add it to your Google Account (follow screen instructions)

e. Set up your Chapter headings:

The following list can be set up now and the contents completed as the investigation progresses (Using the menu at the top of your document, make these "Heading 1" (see illustration below):

e.g.

Introduction

Methodology

Data Presentation, description and interpretation

Conclusions

Evaluation

f. Set up you section headings:

Within each of the Chapter Headings you can have a number of sections. The following are for inclusion in the Introduction... Add them to your document and make each a "Heading 2" using the menu at the top of the document.

e.g.

Introduction

Explaining the title

Geographical background

Sequence of Investigation

Key concepts

Location of the Study Site

To see an example layout click - HERE