Lesson video

Hi, everybody.

I'm Mrs. Lomax, and I'm a primary teacher and I really love geography.

So I'm very excited to be sharing today's geography lesson with you.

I have had a little look, and it looks very, very exciting.

So shall we find out what we're going to do today?

So today, we are going to be celebrating our locality.

By the end of today's lesson, you will have done some fieldwork to help you describe, locate, and explain special features of your local area.

We do have some keywords today.

So we have celebrate, fieldwork, guide, sense of place, trail.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

Ready?

Celebrate.

Fieldwork.

Guide.

Sense of place.

Trail.

Well done, and remember to look out for those words in your lesson today.

See if you can spot them.

Today's lesson is split into three parts.

We're getting ready for fieldwork, doing fieldwork, and sharing our fieldwork.

So let's get ready to do our fieldwork.

Fieldwork is where we go outside as geographers, okay, and this is our chance to think about the work we've been doing and learning all about our local area and celebrating what we found out.

So you have to have a think what in our local area we would like to share through our fieldwork.

So often when we're doing fieldwork, we ask these questions.

Where is this?

What is it like?

What happens here?

And how do I feel about it?

So I want you to have a look at this photo here.

Imagine you are in this photo, and see if you can answer those four questions about this photo.

So where is this?

What is it like?

What happens here?

And how do you feel about it?

Pause the video and come back and share your answers in a moment.

How did you get on?

Fieldwork is also about finding locations, information, and making connections.

Can you think of anything else that geographers do as well?

Pause the video, gather your answers, and come back when you're ready.

How did you get on?

Okay, before we start to do any fieldwork, we need to remember the Fieldwork Safety Code.

And there are five points, just like you have five fingers on your hand.

So the first one is watch what you touch.

You don't want to touch anything nasty.

You don't want any germs, and you don't want to cut your finger, do you?

Stay alert.

You need to make sure you're looking around.

Don't be so engrossed in making a map that you walk into a wall or a lamppost, okay?

Walk wisely.

Make sure you're walking sensibly.

Listen and look.

And keep close.

Keep close to the adults that are also on the fieldwork with you.

What can you remember from the Fieldwork Safety Code?

See if you can get all five points as a class.

Pause the video, and then we'll check your answers.

How did you get on?

Hopefully, you got all five, watch what you touch, stay alert, walk wisely, listen and look, and keep close.

Well done for any of them that you did remember.

When we're getting ready for our fieldwork, there are lots of decisions to make.

Where should we go?

You could go to your beach, your high street.

What information might we need?

Here's a map.

You might need some photographs, okay?

We also need to think about how far we should walk.

Maps can help us with this.

How far do you think we should walk?

Why don't you have a little discussion as a class and then come back when you've got an answer?

How did you get on?

This circle shows a distance of one kilometer from our school in any direction.

That is about 15 minutes of walking.

That can be quite a good distance to walk when you're doing fieldwork.

Have a look at the map.

Can you find some interesting places to stop and investigate inside the big circle?

How did you get on?

What things did you find?

I can see there's a holiday village.

There's quite a few holiday villages.

There's the beach.

There's some farmland.

I'm sure you came up with lots more than that, though, as well.

Right, let's have a quick check.

What does the big circle show, one kilometer from school, the way to the beach, or 10 kilometers from school?

Pause the video, collect your ideas, and then come back, and we'll check the answer.

How did you get on?

So what does the big circle show?

It shows it's one kilometer from school, so if you said a, one kilometer from school, you would be correct.

We can do fieldwork around our school, which means we could practice our skills so that we're ready to do our fieldwork a little bit further out in that one-kilometer circle.

Where would we investigate in our school grounds?

Have a think, pause the video, and come back when you shared your answers.

Well done.

I hope you came up with some good ideas for investigating around the school.

If we walk further from school, we need to look on the map for toilets, don't we?

Just to make sure that there are some to use.

Even if we do have a safety wee before we leave school, we might need the toilet.

So here is the map.

Have a look in that one-kilometer circle.

Can you find any public toilets here on the map?

You've got the key there, so that's the sign for the public toilets right there.

See if you can find any on the map.

How did you get on?

There are some right here, aren't there, just on the edge of our circle?

I've planned a fieldwork trip.

Can you see where we're going?

We've got three different destinations.

Pause the video, have a look, and then we'll check our answers.

So our first stop is school, and then the Leysdown seafront, and then our final stop is to the beach.

Talk to your partner about places on your map that you could investigate.

Which places would you like to investigate?

In which order would you visit them in?

Pause the video now, and come back when you're done.

How did you get on?

You might think that first, I would investigate around my school grounds.

Second, I would investigate Leysdown seafront, and then third, I would investigate the beach.

Did you have the same ideas or different ideas?

So when we're doing fieldwork, we can use our senses to give other people a sense of what a place is really like.

So what senses could we use?

We're going to imagine we've gone to the beach to do some fieldwork.

What senses could we use to describe what the beach is like?

Pause the video, gather your ideas, and then come back, and we will share our answers.

How did you get on?

We could talk about what can we see, what can we hear, what can we smell, and what can we feel?

So imagine you're at the beach.

What can you see here if you're stood right where this picture is taken?

Talk to your talk partners, and then share your answers, and then come back, and we'll have a look together.

How did you get on?

I noticed that I could see a hill with some houses on it.

I could see the sea and some waves, and I could see the sand.

And here, I can see lots of pebbles and shells.

Was there anything else that you could see that I missed?

Okay, let's see if you can match the label to the feature.

So you need to find the hill and the houses, the sea and the waves, the sand, the pebbles and the shells.

Pause the video, and we'll come back and check our answers.

How did you get on?

Let's have a look.

Here's the hill with the houses.

Here's the sea and the waves.

Here's the sand and the pebbles and the shells.

Well done.

You might want to do this when you're doing your fieldwork.

You can label a photo, and you can also use the compass directions to help you talk about what location the features are in your photo.

We can also sketch what we see.

So here you can see the hills and the sand and the sea, and there are the pebbles and the shells.

It doesn't have to be the most amazing picture.

It's just a sketch so that you can remember what you saw when you were out doing your fieldwork.

And you can use your compass directions to help you so that we can see the features that are in the north, the hill and the houses, and down in the south of the picture, you've got the pebbles and the shells.

Fieldwork sketches are a really good way of making notes and observations of what you've seen so that you don't forget when you get back to the classroom.

So let's have a think about what can we hear.

We can use a sound map to record what we can hear in different directions.

So if you imagine you are the me, right there in that circle, and you've got north, south, east, and west marked on there as well.

You are stood in the middle, and you would listen really quietly for what you can hear, and the things that you could hear, you would mark in the right direction.

You might also want to put, if it's really close by, put it closer to you in the circle.

If it's further away, put it further away in the circle.

So let's have a go, shall we?

Okay, this is Jun, and he is doing a sound map.

(Mrs. Lomax laughs) What can Jun hear to the east?

Is it a, seagulls, b, a dog barking, c, waves crashing, or d, an ice cream van?

What can Jun hear to the east?

If you said a, seagulls, you would be correct.

Well done.

If you said a, seagulls, you would be correct.

Well done.

Okay, what can Jun hear to the south, a, seagulls, b, a dog barking, c, waves crashing, or d, an ice cream van?

What can Jun hear to the south?

If you said c, waves crashing, you would be correct.

Well done.

And now, what can Jun hear to the west, a, seagulls, b, a dog barking, c, waves crushing, d, an ice cream van?

If you said b, a dog barking, you are correct.

Well done.

Okay.

Are you ready for Task 2?

So you are going to fill in a senses grid whilst you're doing your fieldwork.

So you need to say your location, where are we?

And write down everything that you can see, smell, hear, or touch.

If you're not quite sure how to write it, you can always draw a picture.

Have a go at this task, and then come back, and let's see what answers I found when I went to the beach.

So, how did you get on?

This was mine from when I visited the beach at Leysdown.

I could see the sea, waves, sand, people walking and playing.

I could smell the sea and the candy floss.

I could hear the seagulls calling, and I could touch, I could feel the smooth pebbles and the crunchy sand.

Okay, now we've done our fieldwork.

Let's see about how we would share our fieldwork.

We've collected all this interesting information, haven't we?

But now what are we going to do with it?

Let's find out.

When we share our fieldwork with others, we give them a sense of what a place is really like.

What can we use to give a sense of a place we have investigated?

Have a little think, and then we'll have a check back in a moment.

We could use a labeled map.

We could use a senses grid, and we could use photos, couldn't we?

When we share our fieldwork with others, we give them a sense of what a place is really like.

What can we use to give a sense of a place we have investigated?

Pause the video, have a little chat, and then come back, and we'll have a look at some answers.

What did you come up with?

We could use a labeled map, couldn't we, to help them learn the location of the places we visited and where they are?

We could use a senses grid, couldn't we, to help give people a sense of what the place is like?

And we could use photos to help people see, sorry, lost my train of thought there, to help people see what features we identified and what it looked like.

So, what can we use to give a sense of the place we have investigated?

There's a hint there in the question.

What can we use to give a sense of the place we have investigated, a, a labeled map, b, photographs and drawings, or c, a sense map?

Pause the video, collect your answers, and then check back here.

If you said a sense map, well done.

And did you spot the clue in the question?

The word sense was in the question as well, wasn't it?

What can we use to show the location of the place we have investigated, so where the place is, a labeled map, photographs, and drawings, or a sense map?

So, I want to know what we can use to show the location of the place we have investigated.

Pause the video, collect your answers, and then check back.

How did you get on?

To show the location, we could use a labeled map.

So, if you said a, a labeled map, you were correct.

Well done.

So, for your final task today, you're going to display your fieldwork and describe the place you investigated to give visitors a sense of the place.

You could use labeled maps.

You could use drawings, such as a fieldwork sketch.

You could use a sound map, photographs, and a senses grid.

Don't forget, on your drawings and your photographs, you could also label, couldn't you, features that you had found?

Maybe there was a really interesting feature that you discovered, and you investigated that a little bit more.

So, you might want to show where that is on the map or on a photograph, and then use your senses grid or your sound map to help describe it some more.

When you have finished your task, come back, and we'll share them all together.

How did you get on?

This was my fieldwork that I did at the beach.

So, I made sure I said where it was, Leysdown Beach on the Isle of Sheppey.

I showed a label map, a labeled map even, of the three destinations and where the beach is in relation to the school and the seafront.

I did my sound maps.

So you can see I could see the waves down to the south, the seagulls to the east, the ice cream van, yum, to the north, and a dog barking to the west.

And then, I did my senses grid, so what I could see, smell, hear, and touch at the beach.

I also did a labeled photograph.

My field sketch wasn't the best, so I decided to do a photograph.

You could do a field sketch, though, if you wanted.

And I labeled the hill and the houses, the sea and the waves, the sand, and the pebbles and shells, and there were some sketches of some shells and some photographs of some shells that I found at the beach.

It seemed to be a very popular activity that lots of other people were doing at the beach as well, so I thought that might be an important part of my fieldwork to share.

How did you get on with your fieldwork?

So, to summarize today, interesting and favorite human and physical features can be shared with trails, maps, and guides for visitors.

Fieldwork helps us collect information about a place using firsthand experience.

You can do things such as a senses grid, a sound map, use photographs, label them, and you could use your compass directions, and you can use your sketch, field sketches as well, can't you?

Well done on all your fantastic hard work today.

I really hope you enjoyed getting to think about some fieldwork.

Don't forget to do the exit quiz, and I will see you ready for your next lesson next time you're doing some geography.

Bye.