Environmental Quality Surveys
Introduce your KS3 and GCSE geography students to environmental quality surveys (EQS) with this complete lesson and data collection template. Suitable for all GCSE exam boards, it's a great activity to complete in preparation for urban fieldwork.
Students will create their own bipolar scale and use it as a benchmark for comparing different areas around their school grounds, measuring factors like air quality, litter and vandalism. Students will also practise their data presentation skills, creating a graph to display their data. Finally, students will analyse their findings with helpful sentence starters to guide them.
The PowerPoint includes helpful step-by-step instructions to prepare students for data collection and for presenting their data in radial diagrams. The worksheet includes printouts of the EQS and a template for students to use when creating their graphs.
Looking for more fieldwork resources? Geographical applications and skills covers a range of fieldwork techniques including how to complete questionnaires, traffic counts and field sketches.
What is an environmental quality survey?
- An environmental quality survey uses observations to assess the environmental quality of a location against a range of indicators such as litter and graffiti.
- The qualities are measured on either a sliding scale or a bi-polar scale with pairs of opposing statements.
- An environmental quality survey is completed independently creating subjective data based on personal judgement.
