GCSE COURSE STUDY

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GCSE COURSE STUDY

• This is your first coursework item.
• It is worth 15
• It is based on a fieldwork visit on Tuesday 22
  April.
• It must be completed by the end of term.
• Title How good is the access at the Lickey Hills
  for different groups of people?

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Chapter 1 Introduction

• Setting the scene
• The location of the Lickey Hills
• What is the Lickey Hills like?
• Your first impressions
• Guiding sub-questions

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Setting the scene

• Leisure time
• More paid holidays
• Shorter working hours
• Car ownership
• Health and fitness
• De-stressing
• Time saving gadgets at home
• Wealthier

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Setting the scene

• Country parks
• Access to the countryside
• Wildlife
• Cleaner and quieter than cities
• On edge of cities

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Setting the scene

• Disabled access
• Law since 2005
• Disability Discrimination Act
• Equal opportunities
• Blind, deaf, wheelchair users etc.
• Different interests
• Different age groups to satisfy

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The Location of the Lickey Hills

• Distance from Birmingham, Redditch
• County
• Nearby motorways and main roads

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What is the Lickey Hills Country Park like?

• Who owns it?
• How big is it?
• How long has it been a country park?
• What is the landscape like?
• What is the natural vegetation like?
• What is there for visitors to do?

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First Impressions

• Write a paragraph describing what you think of
  the park after you just arrive.
• Big/small, impressive, quiet/noisy, clean/dirty,
  etc
• You wont be able to do this until you have
  visited the Licky Hills.

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Guiding sub-questions

• Choose 2 sub-questions which you will have to
  collect data for, then present it as maps, graphs
  and diagrams and write an analysis of it.
• Choose one of the following

• Footpaths are badly eroded and are difficult for
  disabled people to use.
• Footpaths are well maintained and are easily
  accessible for all groups of people.

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More sub-questions

• Footpaths are flat and level and easily usable by
  all groups of people.
• Now choose one of the following to do, or
  make up your own
• There are poor facilities inside the visitors
  centre for disabled people.

• Access into the visitors centre is very good for
  all groups of people.
• Access is good from the car park for disabled
  people arriving by car.
• There are poor facilities for mothers of babies.
• The park is sympathetic to the needs of blind and
  deaf people.

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Some useful web sites

• www.birmingham.gov.uk/lickeys.bcc
• www.lickeyhills.bham.org/index.html
• www.picturesofengland.com
• www.donowdo.com
• www.multimap.com (old site)
• Google earth
• Google maps
• www.henleyhigh.com (geography Lickey Hills
  Resources)