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.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
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.
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.
To help you plan your year 2 geography lesson on: Fieldwork: our locality, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 2 geography lesson on: Fieldwork: our locality, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
Explore more key stage 1 geography lessons from the Local area: why is (our place) special? unit, dive into the full secondary geography curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
Exit quiz
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