1. Internal Assessment Overview:
In geography, traditionally plan, perform, and collect fieldwork together HOWEVER EVERYONE WILL WRITE THEIR OWN REPORT!
Worth 20% of your total grade, marked by Ms. S. and then audited externally (selected few chosen and regraded by examiners).
Rough Draft Due September 11th, Final Copy due September 25th (one month and half after return to school).

2. IA Overview: Geography
2500 words maximum (get as close as possible)
Neat and well structured, with sub-headings (not included in word count)
Front page, contents page, numbered pages
Referenced in MLA format
Includes maps (hand drawn), pictures, tables and graphs in the main body of the essay (as well as your appendix materials)

3. Word Count Overview Section A: introduction 300 words
Section B: methods of investigation 300 words
Section C/D: information collection and written analysis 1350 words
Section E: Conclusion 200 words
Section F: Evaluation 300 words

4. Not included: Title page Acknowledgments Contents page
Titles and subtitles
References
Footnotes—up to a maximum of 15 words each
Map legends and/or keys
Labels—of 10 words or less
Tables—of statistical or numerical data, or categories, classes or group names
Calculations
Appendices—containing only raw data and/or calculations

5. Our Topic; Ocean Plastic
Estimated over 5 trillion plastic pieces in the ocean
Estimates range between tonnes
Most plastic found in regions of one of the 5 gyres as a result of wind and wave action ‘corralling’ plastic floats in the center of the energy (GPGP)
Plastic is sorted into 2 categories - micro and macro plastic – micro being smaller than 5mm in diameter
Micro plastic particles the result of fragmentation of larger items OR runoff from cosmetic/synthetic clothing

6. Figure 2. Model results for global count density in four size classes.
Eriksen M, Lebreton LCM, Carson HS, Thiel M, Moore CJ, et al. (2014) Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea. PLoS ONE 9(12): e doi: /journal.pone

7. Micro and Macro Plastics in Gyres
Grand Bahama is uniquely positioned on southwest of the North Atlantic Gyre, right at the start of the Gulf Stream Current (A), where currents (and upwelling from ocean trench) should be ‘pushing’ plastic towards the middle of the North Atlantic Gyre.

8. 5 Gyres Project (www.5gyres.org)
“Citizen Science Research”
Plastic Beach
Vertical trawling
Manta Trawling
Plastic Ocean Report

9. To what extent are the beaches of _______ and ________ polluted by ocean plastic?

10. Possible Hypothesis:
We will find more plastic debris than any other debris on the beach
The beach with regular the clean-up crews will be more heavily polluted than the beach without clean up crews
We will find more macro plastic than micro plastic (or vice versa)
We will find more plastic on the south side of island than the north
We will find more plastic on west end of the island than the east
Our beaches will be more or less polluted than other beaches
(beaches in San Fransisco or the USA)
The beach with more ocean plastic will have lower environmental quality

11. Investigations: Your Appendices (Thank You 5 Gyres!!!)
Your Task:
- Look over the transect materials to get an idea of how the transects will occur next week.
- Look at your three hypothesis: how will you prove or disprove each one? These are your methods.
- Look at your methods; how will you interpret the results after you gather the data? Do you know of any statistical calculations?