PITCH-IN CANADA Week
Data Card Instructions

LAND POLLUTION COUNT
DATA CARD
Instructions

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1. Photocopy sufficient number of the appropriate Data Cards for your participants (usually two people work together to complete a card)
   
2. Carefully review the Data Card to make sure it makes sense to you and then instruct your volunteers how to complete it "on the beach" or "in the field".....remember: "garbage in = garbage out", if you will pardon the pun!
   
3. Review the Safety Tips for conducting a clean up found in the Resources Section of our Web Site as well as those on the Data Card.
   
4. Provide volunteer researchers with pencils/eraser and, if you can, a clipboard. Activity: Have volunteers make up clipboards by cutting up cardboard boxes, attach pencil with a string. Reuse them next year!
   
5. Collect all the completed Data Cards from your researchers immediately after the project, check each Data Card to make sure it has been completed.
   
6. Compile the data collected on each Data Card, enter the totals onto the Summary Form and calculate percentages for each debris item found. (this would make a great activity for a computer science or math class!)
   
7. Verify that you have completed the Summary Form correctly. Make sure you enter your name, number of participants, etc... on the Summary Form so that PITCH-IN CANADA knows who sent in the data and where it was collected.
   

8. Return the completed Summary Forms to:

PITCH-IN CANADA DATA
Box 45011
Ocean Park RPO
WHITE ROCK, B.C.
V4A 9L1

To view and print the Questionnaire please click here