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Geography · Grade 10

A Human Geography Inquiry

In this capstone, learners carry out a structured human-geography inquiry into how housing costs change across a (fictional) city. They write a hypothesis and null hypothesis, choose a sampling strategy and ethical methods, test the pattern with Spearman's rank correlation, combine the numbers with coded interview evidence, and link their conclusions to urban models — then design an inquiry of their own.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 120 minutes
  • Human geography inquiry check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, pin a map, match pairs, type a number and put in order
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What learners will discover

  • Design a human geography inquiry with a hypothesis, null hypothesis, mixed methods, an appropriate sampling strategy and ethical safeguards.
  • Calculate and interpret Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, including strength, direction and significance.
  • Integrate qualitative evidence with quantitative patterns using coding and triangulation.
  • Draw conclusions linked to geographic models, evaluate limitations and communicate findings.

Lessons

  1. Designing the inquiry 6 steps4 practiceabout 30 min
  2. Testing the pattern: Spearman's rank 6 steps4 practiceabout 31 min
  3. Adding qualitative evidence 5 steps3 practiceabout 29 min
  4. Conclusions, models and limitations 6 steps3 practiceabout 30 min
  5. Human geography inquiry check 10 questions at the end

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