High Street Survey, Unit occupation and Generational Shopping Habits

The overall objective here is to promote High Street shopping/usage.

A whole class task - on Google Maps or Off-site
Can be given as an enrichment task for students to complete over the weekend

The work covers Geography - Involves decision making, refining a survey, completing a investigational analysis of a high street. Giving Questionnaire sheets to relatives of different generations - hopefully would promote discussion with parents/guardians/teachers/peers.

Please do, discuss and, change the points allocation, This can generate really interesting discussion on what people value as part of their local high street.

Also covers finding Latitude and Longitude from GIS (Google Maps) - rounding minutes to degrees.
Researching population and rounding to 2 significant figures
Using the street view of Google Maps (GIS Tool)
Dealing with Hundreds Tens Singles of millions, thousands and Units for effective rounding.

TRY TO ELIMINATE THE MISCONCEPTION of Hundreds, Tens and (Units) put in their heads from Primary Schools

It should be:
billions , millions ,thousands , UNITS
H T S H T S H T S H T S (these are all units HTS of Units - remind students of the SINGLE cubes, 10 cube sticks and 100 cube Squares they used in Primary School. The 10 cube stick is ten UNITS, the 100 Cube, plastic square contains 100 UNITS, the single cube is therefore a SINGLE unit.

Also, we no longer use comma’s - 2,500 should be 2 500 with a space, digits should be grouped in 3’s for HTS

This just makes it easier for students to understand/comprehend as they move higher up in maths

There is some work on rounding to 2 significant figures - and it should help students to understand why we use significant figures for rounding.

Data crunching and representation will be done using ICT - this part should be quite easy on the computers using Excel - my instructions here are limited, but you may wish to crunch the data in different ways.

The whole task should be reasonably straight forward to complete - the hard work was in the design of the questionnaire making the completion a little easier.

I have uploaded the PDF file as the boxes move all over the place on word.

Best regards,

Keith Thorogood