After a practice fieldwork day in the town centre, the teacher sets up a Padlet with one post per student. Each student posts three possible hypotheses about the site, for example on how pedestrian counts or environmental quality scores change with distance from the main shopping street. Three named peers comment on each post, saying which hypothesis is most testable with the data the class collected, which is weakest and why, and one refinement. The teacher reads across the comments on the board, picks out two hypotheses that cannot be measured as written, and reworks one with the class. Students then revise their preferred hypothesis; because this is a practice site, their real NEA question is developed independently afterwards, in line with exam-board rules.
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