Fieldwork: our locality
Lesson details
Learning outcome
You can do fieldwork to help you describe, locate and explain special features of your local area.
Key learning points
- We can use a fieldwork safety code to stay safe when completing fieldwork.
- As well as gathering facts about places, a sense of place can be developed using the senses.
- Interesting and favourite human and physical features can be shared with trails, maps and guides for visitors.
- Fieldwork helps us collect information about a place using first-hand experience.
Keywords
Celebrate - When we celebrate we acknowledge an important date, event or place.
Sense of place - A sense of place is the character of a place, or the meaning that people apply to it, including how we feel about a place.
Guide - A guide is a person, book or support that helps you find where places are and what they are like in the area you are exploring.
Fieldwork - Investigating the outdoors using geographical tools and thinking, and gathering information or data is known as fieldwork.
Trail - A trail can be a rough marked path or a marked path with guidance about a route.
Common misconception
Everyday places where we live, are of no particular value for fieldwork.
Local and ordinary places deserve attention and this can be modelled through careful, local investigations that celebrate the everyday.
Teacher tip
Practise annotated mapping by drawing over a photograph on the interactive whiteboard in class. Emphasise that it is about sketching in features very simply to help you remember. In the field, use a sheet with labels already written on it.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these help make fieldwork great? Choose 3.
Q2.Order these parts of an address from local to national.
Q3.What continent is the UK a part of?
Q4.Which is our nearest ocean, to the west of the UK?
Q5.What is the equator?
Q6.The most northerly country of the UK is...?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What direction does the needle on a compass point to?
Q2.Can you match these human and physical features?
human feature
human feature
human feature
physical feature
physical feature
physical feature
Q3.Which is best for local area fieldwork, a small scale or a large scale map?
Q4.Using our senses on fieldwork helps us to...?
Q5.Why might we measure distance from school when planning fieldwork?
Q6.What will you need for fieldwork on a hot, sunny day?
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