1. By Zach Willmott, Liam Cain and Mitchell Sara

2. Introduction Our goal is to find out if the distance a student lives from school influences their mode of transport to school? How many students are driven to school, when they can walk or ride bikes? We predict that the distance a student lives from school influences their mode of transport to school, we also believe that if students live a small distance from school, they would use an energy efficient way (riding, walking, skating) to get to school. We think this as we see a lot of students walking and riding to school. Hypothesis

3. We decided to gather our information for our survey as first-hand data as this way we find more accurate and did our topic on our particular school. We surveyed 10 girls and 10 boys from each of the year groups 8,9,10,11 and 12. We went from class to class surveying all the students from each year. We thought ten people would give a more accurate result towards the finalising result.

4. The data for this graph was gathered by our group, meaning it’s first hand data. This graph clearly shows that students mainly live in Australind that attend Australind Senior High School and a small minority live in Carey Park and Collie that attend this school.

5. Distance from school How many people live there that we surveyed The main mode of transport used 2 km46walk/ride 5 km19car 10 km13bus 20 km8bus 30 km12bus 50km2car This bar graph and table show that the distance a student lives from school clearly influences the mode of transport they catch.

6. We found out that the distance a student lives from school does affect their mode of transport. People living closer to school (1- 4km) often walk or ride but people living further away (5-50km) use public transport or cars to get to school. This fits our hypothesis. We have surmised that people are quite lazy and should walk or ride to school when they get driven. There can be a significant change in energy if people who drive or catch public transport, could ride or walk.

7. All in all, this has been a good experiment and if to change it next time, we would improve our surveys or give out more surveys to give a more accurate result. We wish we had more time to improve our power point or our graphs, it has been a good experiment and we have found out a lot: the distance a student lives from school does influence their mode of transport to school.