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S3 - Blackfish

“Rosehill: A place to learn, grow, and thrive”

Respect. Kindness. Responsibility.

Useful Links

Quadrant 4

Focus Subjects:

Religious and Moral Education

  • What is free will and who/what has it?
  • Conditioning of orcas.
  • Comparing orcas to humans.
  • How orcas are trained - behaviourism.

  • Who was responsible for the death of the trainers?
  • What is a Christian viewpoint on using orcas for entertainment?
  • Writing a issues essay on keeping orcas in captivity.

Key Terms and Definitions

Morality Dominion

Free will Stewardship

Conditioning

Behaviourism

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Key Term Definitions

Morality - Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour.

Free will - Free will implies that you have the ability to make whatever choice you want at any given time. Nothing controls your actions.

Conditioning - A form of learning where someone, or something, learns to do something due to a stimulus that they then associate with that action. For example, at SeaWorld orcas were trained to perform by receiving food when they did that action.

Behaviourism - When learning happens because of an associated reward or punishment.

Dominion - In Christianity, dominion is the belief that God has given humans the power the rule over Earth.

Stewardship - In Christianity, stewardship is the belief that God has given humans the responsibility to look after Earth.

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S3 - Social Studies Research Methods

“Rosehill: A place to learn, grow, and thrive”

Respect. Kindness. Responsibility.

Useful Links

Quadrant 4

Focus Subjects:

Modern Studies

Geography

History

  • Primary Vs Secondary information.
  • Qualitative vs Quantitative information.

  • Summarising an article.
  • Annotating a map.
  • Carrying out traffic/pedestrian count.
  • Carrying out an online survey.
  • What developments should happen in Wallyford?
  • Using sources of evidence.
  • Making a decision on developments.
  • Presenting findings.

Key Terms and Definitions

Primary Annotation

Secondary Summarising

Qualitative Traffic/pedestrian count

Quantitative Online survey

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Key Term Definitions

Primary - New information that has been gathered directly from a researcher.

Secondary - Information that already exists which has been produced by other people.

Qualitative - Qualitative data is interpretation-based, descriptive, and relating to language. Qualitative data can help us to understand why, how, or what happened.

Quantitative - Quantitative data is numbers-based, countable, or measurable. Quantitative data tells us how many, how much, or how often.

Traffic/pedestrian count - Taking a tally of how many people/vehicles pass a particular point on a street, for a set period of time.

Online survey - Series of questions asked about a particular issue, that are sent to people digitally (such as a Google Form) to answer.

Summarising - Taking the key points for an article and writing a short paragraphs, in your own words, to highlight the main points that were made.

Annotation - Adding labels (drawing an arrow and using words) to highlight key parts of a photograph, diagram, map etc.