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Year 2

Fieldwork: our locality

You can do fieldwork to help you describe, locate and explain special features of your local area.

New
New
Year 2

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

  1. We can use a fieldwork safety code to stay safe when completing fieldwork.
  2. As well as gathering facts about places, a sense of place can be developed using the senses.
  3. Interesting and favourite human and physical features can be shared with trails, maps and guides for visitors.
  4. 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.

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.
Teacher tip

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of these help make fieldwork great? Choose 3.
Staying inside and not talking to anyone.
Correct answer: Asking questions, finding and thinking about useful information.
Correct answer: Using geography tools like compasses and maps, as well as your senses.
Going to the shops.
Correct answer: Sharing what you find out.
Q2.
Order these parts of an address from local to national.
1 - house number
2 - street
3 - town
4 - country
Q3.
What continent is the UK a part of?
Correct Answer: Europe
Q4.
Which is our nearest ocean, to the west of the UK?
Pacific Ocean
Correct answer: Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Arctic Ocean
Southern Ocean
Q5.
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
Correct answer: a circle around the middle of the world on a map or globe
a country in South America
Q6.
The most northerly country of the UK is...?
England
Wales
Northern Ireland
Correct answer: Scotland

6 Questions

Q1.
What direction does the needle on a compass point to?
Correct answer: north
south
east
west
Q2.
Can you match these human and physical features?
Correct Answer:bridge,human feature

human feature

Correct Answer:car park,human feature

human feature

Correct Answer:supermarket,human feature

human feature

Correct Answer:stream,physical feature

physical feature

Correct Answer:marsh,physical feature

physical feature

Correct Answer:hill,physical feature

physical feature

Q3.
Which is best for local area fieldwork, a small scale or a large scale map?
Correct Answer: large scale map
Q4.
Using our senses on fieldwork helps us to...?
...count where people are going.
Correct answer: ...develop a sense of place.
...count what people are doing.
...know what the weather is like.
Q5.
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
Correct answer: to think about how far we can walk safely
Q6.
What will you need for fieldwork on a hot, sunny day?
Correct answer: a hat, sunscreen and a drink
raincoat
packed lunch
a big bag