Fieldwork: our locality
You can do fieldwork to help you describe, locate and explain special features of your local area.
Fieldwork: our locality
You can do fieldwork to help you describe, locate and explain special features of your local area.
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.
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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