Urban fieldwork
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can collect primary and secondary data in an urban area to help me answer a geographical enquiry question.
Key learning points
- There are many geographical enquiry questions that you can investigate in urban areas such as towns and cities.
- Data collection techniques in an urban area can investigate quality of life, sustainability and regeneration.
- Secondary data can provide contextual information about urban populations and spaces and how these have changed.
Keywords
Regeneration - changes made to a built environment to try to improve the area for residents and workers
Bipolar scoring - a score scale that uses both positive and negative values
Proxy indicator - a variable which indirectly suggests that another variable may be true
Common misconception
Secondary crime data tells us about the economic prosperity of a place.
Crime data can be misinterpreted. The data does not give any details about the economic status of the victim or the perpetrator. It is also assumes that the perpetrator lives in the area where they committed the crime, for which there is no evidence.
Teacher tip
Cities can be thought of as dynamic beings with multiple, complex variables interacting together at once. Students need to recognise that urban spaces are meeting points of lots of areas in geography. Students should understand the links between these topics before they start some urban fieldwork.
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - outdoor learning
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Someone's lived experience is...
Q2.Roads, bridges, buildings, ports and train lines could collectively be called...
Q3.Which of the following might be considered a regeneration project?
Q4.Which location is least likely to be studied in an urban area?
Q5.The UK national is a survey sent out every 10 years to each household in the UK to find out detailed information about the population.
Q6.__________ is the state of living where residents do not have, or have access to, the resource is and services necessary for them to have a reasonable quality of life.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Which of the following is an example of a bipolar scoring system?
Q2.Which of the following statements is true?
Q3.Sort these steps for carrying out a clone town survey into the correct order.
Q4.Studying the sustainability of changes in an urban area could mean studying the -term impacts on people and the environment.
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