Starter quiz
- Which of these help make fieldwork great? Choose 3.
- Staying inside and not talking to anyone.
- Asking questions, finding and thinking about useful information. ✓
- Using geography tools like compasses and maps, as well as your senses. ✓
- Going to the shops.
- Sharing what you find out. ✓
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- Order these parts of an address from local to national.
- 1⇔house number
- 2⇔street
- 3⇔town
- 4⇔country
- What continent is the UK a part of?
- 'Europe' ✓
- Which is our nearest ocean, to the west of the UK?
- Pacific Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean ✓
- Indian Ocean
- Arctic Ocean
- Southern Ocean
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- What is the equator?
- a circle around the north pole on a map or globe
- a circle around the south pole on a map or globe
- a circle around the middle of the world on a map or globe ✓
- a country in South America
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- The most northerly country of the UK is...?
- England
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland ✓
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Exit quiz
- What direction does the needle on a compass point to?
- north ✓
- south
- east
- west
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- Can you match these human and physical features?
- bridge⇔human feature ✓
- car park⇔human feature ✓
- supermarket⇔human feature ✓
- stream⇔physical feature ✓
- marsh⇔physical feature ✓
- hill⇔physical feature ✓
- Which is best for local area fieldwork, a small scale or a large scale map?
- 'large scale map' ✓
- Using our senses on fieldwork helps us to...?
- ...count where people are going.
- ...develop a sense of place. ✓
- ...count what people are doing.
- ...know what the weather is like.
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- Why might we measure distance from school when planning fieldwork?
- to think about human features
- to think about physical features
- to think about compass direction
- to think about how far we can walk safely ✓
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- What will you need for fieldwork on a hot, sunny day?
- a hat, sunscreen and a drink ✓
- raincoat
- packed lunch
- a big bag
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Worksheet
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Lesson Details
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.
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.
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.