Primary Research

I have decided to aim my project at high school children. To get my primary research, I have decided that I will go to the Liverpool museum and speak to the people who work there and ask about their younger visitors from high school and how many people go for history and geography lessons and research. Also, when visiting the museum, I will take notes or a video on existing documentaries they have playing in there and see what audience they show it to so I get an idea for mine; for example, they could show a history documentary film on history of the docs and they could show it to a small group of school children.

I will have to do some research on how children are learning and the sources teachers use to help them learn. I need to find out if documentaries are used effectively and are teaching them a lesson so I know my documentary will have an effect on teaching.

I will also get resources from the internet like TES that high school teachers use for their lessons when teaching history and geography. I can find out who made the resources and get in contact with them and find out what other sources they use when they are teaching about Liverpool. I can also use exam websites like AQA and OCR and find out how many students are taking history and geography for GCSEs.

I can also get in touch with my high school and ask them to also send me the resources they use when they are teaching and see if I can get any useful information. I will do Vox pops and a questionnaire to get more information on the target audience and send them to teachers as well because it will need to appeal to them if I do use it to teach school children so the teachers will have to use it when teaching in the lessons.