30/09/2011

Specific Outcomes and Assessment Criteria:

                                     

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 1

Use appropriate method/s to collect a range of environmental data and/or specimens.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 1

A list of the prescribed methods is provided that is appropriate to the area of operation.

Specific methods for specific staff to use.

You must know what kind of staff you will need to use for a specific plant or grass etc. You must also know what methods you can use to test the thing to see what happened or is beginning to happen.

Fauna- dead or alive. Dead insects can be pinned down to preserve them for a longer time. embrio's or certain animals can be jarred in formalin.

         Flora- can be pressed between cardbordboxes and newspaper, covered with a stabel wooden casing    pressed together.

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 2

A selection is made of appropriate data collection methods as it applies to the types of data to be collected in the operational environment.

You search and do research to know what kind of plant, grass, animal it is and what the problem is or was. You must explain how what you got and what the problem is and if it is the same like others or different. Must also show where it comes from and if it come from a anther place or not?

When collecting a specimen you should note and record the location and co-ordinates of the specific area aswell as marking it of on a simple map of the enviorment. record the weather conditions as well as temperature of your surroundings and any variables than might be important

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 3

A range of environmental data or specimens is collected and records are made to ensure the usefulness of the data collected.

Now that you collected all of your information it must come on a data. To collect it, because every time you do it you can refer back to the other.

A range of environmental data should be kept and uploaded in the area in which the specimen was found. An annual update should be done on the data, example weather, season, habitat condition.
 

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 2

Locate and record the area for collection.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 1

Applicable navigation techniques are used to reach the collection site as specified for data or specimen collection.

ASSESSMENT CRITERION RANGE

Use of navigational equipment and maps.

Applicable navigation techniques are used to show the coordinates of a place. E.g. GPS Or you can use other  technology. It can help you to show where you can find it. When a spesific specimen is found, it is extreemly important to mark the exact site on a local simple map and retrieve the GPs co-ordinates so that it can be attatched to the specimen and others can find that exact location again for whatever reason.

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 2

A record is made of the localities where the specimens will be collected.

You must record where the localities is of the specimens to collect them. The area in which the object was found should be dually noted example, country, province, town, grid reference and co-ordinates, landmarks.

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 3

Collect, obtain data and/or prepare the required specimens according to prescribed procedures.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 1

Required specimens are collected; data obtained and/or prepared using prescribed methods and procedures.

You can get dead or alive animals.

E.g.

In a killing jar- Formalin: That is staff that the animal that is in there cant stick or get rotten.

Dried: Can make a pen through its body and put it on a board. E.g. Butterfly.

Plants: Between news paper and a hard board between every plant and a big holder to squeeze the plant and hold them.

Snakes: In a pit trap.

During field work, the collector will use his note-book for “on the spot” observations. Details of locality, type of environment, ecological association should be specified, with date and collector's name. Space is left for details of novelty or special interest, but with well-investigated species, this will not necessarily be filled. Reference should be given to any life drawing, colour record, slide or other preparation made from living material.

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 2

Records and relevant data are kept of the precise location where the specimens were collected.

Must have record where the specimens are going and all of the information must stand on it for further referral or research.

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 3

Required environmental data is recorded using appropriate methods and equipment.

ASSESSMENT CRITERION RANGE

Tree diameter, prevailing weather condition, and photographs taken.

The bulk of the information about a specimen should be entered on the record sheet. It is not usually convenient to label material exhaustively in situations. Labels attached to the container should include the habitat, locality and date, and the collector's initial, with perhaps a condensation of any other information to which it is desired to refer without turning up the field sheet. Most important a reference number.

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 4

A review is given of what constitutes ethical collecting practices.

Must have a former of what happened last time and if change is necessary. Must have all the information to know what to do know.

After the specimen was found it is important to preserve the specimen properly so that it does not damage or break and loose complete value. Specimens from any field collection should be deposited in a reference collection in an institutional for the long-term maintenance and access for the future. . Do not crowd living animals in small containers - this will result in damage to their surfaces or appendages. Do not keep animals for preservation "later" as it may die and pollute a container, killing others, even leading to a distortion of morphological features and other damage. This reduces their value as scientific specimens which is the objective of collection in the first place.

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 5

Live specimens are released in area of origin where transportation and additional data collection is not required.

If you take a specie away from its normal town/place and release it a other place it will go crazy and will not be itself. So that not to confuse social structures or territory.

E.g. Animals – Can mate with other type of animals- or tray!

 Or birds: Will go crazy and break other nest.

So it is important to know where it habitat is and where he normal live.

SPECIFIC OUTCOME 4

Package specimens safely for transportation.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 1

Living specimens obtained for data collection purposes are transported correctly and humanely.

When transportinf live animals one should consider a cage, box etc for travelling in to be comfertable and clearly marked to be fragile and  which side upwards. that infact the animal is LIVE and adresses aswell as return adresses should be clearly visible.

It is very important to transport a animal safe to o other place. Because normally the live 3% out of 5%. So you must do you best for comford,air if needed, not to shaky.

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 2

Dead specimens are suitably preserved (without damage).

Can cover it good in a box that is covered and not breakable to easy. Also space but not too big or small. And must be dried out at least 3 weeks and cane be observed..

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 3

Specimens are suitably packaged according to organisational procedures.

Must pack it to the procedures. All collecting is to be conducted in a responsible manner, with full consideration of the three „R‟s principle (replacement, reduction and refinement) in accordance with the Australian Code of Practice for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 4

Steps are taken to ensure that all relevant information accompanies the specimens.

The information is very important, because if the packaged  get lost the people what to call someone or send it back. So it is important.Usually the specimen has to have a tag with all relevant information, where it was found, time and date it was found, sex, age and colour of the speciment.

ASSESSMENT CRITERION 5

The specimens are delivered to the prescribed place and handed over to a designated personnel.

3 main important information:

1)     The delivery address- To how it is going.  2x  Address home and Postal.

2)   Return address- If package get lost, they can send it back.  2x  Address home and Postal.

3)    Contact details- Both the delivery and return number. A Selfone number.

Also a tracking number.