Making a start on TMA01

The tutor marked assignments appear to be very 'bitty' on this course and TMA01 is no exception. There are five questions on this one and I outline them below.

Question 1 is about scales. The very large, like the size of the universe, and the very small, like the size of a proton. The first part of the question involves filling in a table of various sizes of things, doing a few calculations and unit conversions. The second part is 'reflecting' on the comparison between two different scales.

Question 2 is an example of the type of 'practical' work on SM123 and involves writing a protocol for making a cup of tea and then risk assessing the activity. To be fair, it's difficult to do practical work on a distance learning science course, and this is only practice for more scientific procedures later on.

Question 3 involves the collection and presentation of remote sensor weather station data using 'live' readings from the UK and Tenerife. A spreadsheet is constructed and values entered. Students work individually on this task.

Question 4 is the presentation of historical weather station data working with other students in small groups. You get some marks for providing evidence of interacting with the others using the provided forum.

Question 5 is a skills audit of some of the skills acquired or strengthened during the first four weeks of the course. It is made slightly more complicated by the insistence of the production of 'Radar diagrams', as shown on a previous post. There is a lot of reflective learning evidence required for this question, and I suspect some students will take it more seriously than others.

The entire assignment is worth 7% of the total mark for the course.