Yr12 - Writing your research plan

The PowerPoint below has some guidance on how to write your research plan. This does not have to be written up in the table provided in your assessment. You can write it up yourself in a Google Doc.

Make sure you describe;

• You aim (what it is you are trying to find out!).
• What information you will collect.
• Why you want to collect it (how it will help you answer the aim).
• How you will collect it.
• Why you will collect it in this way.

Yr13 - Research guidance

Some useful information describing how to plan your research.



Think carefully about your methodology - how will you find the answer to the questions you have asked?

Yr12 - Urban Heat Islands

Some good videos explaining the urban heat island effect.

Below are a few links to some useful websites.

Urban Heat Island Causes

What is an Urban Heat Island?

Urban Heat Island increase the speed of growth

National Geographic on Urban Heat Islands

The impact of Tourism in Rotorua - some useful links

Article on the economic impact of Tourism

Article discussing the economic impact on Rotorua

Good example of an exam answer on the impact of Tourism in Rotorua

Quite an old but useful report on environmental impacts of Tourism in Rotorua

Rather a good geography blog from another school in NZ

Discussion of the damage to geothermal environments by tourists