How to be “out standing in your field” (work)
Alan ParkinsonFormer GA Secondary
Curriculum Development Leader
Chapter 18 of GA Secondary Geography Handbook
Chapter 10 of Primary Geography Handbook
(and many more GA publications relating to fieldwork)
“the process not the product...” ?
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Animoto movie...
http://biz.animoto.com/education/faq.html
Fieldwork on the Salt Marsh
Exploring ZONATION and SUCCESSION
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What OFSTED think (if you’re interested)
• “Well planned fieldwork in geography adds clear value to learning in the subject as well as providing a positive contribution to the wider curriculum.”
• “Follow up from fieldwork also provides very good support for extended writing, numeracy linked to the analysis of data, sketching, map work, formulating hypotheses and thinking skills.”
• “Enquiry-based fieldwork sharpens and deepens learners’ understanding of geography and the progressive development of geographical skills”
Benefit of the local area
• Accessible• Can be visited frequently, and
cheaply, and observe changes over time
• Pupil perceptions of their local area• “Alternative narratives”• Geo Orienteering David Rogers
Beacon Dodsworth
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ACORN ClassificationTree with branches
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IKEA Frames
Fieldwork in the School Grounds
http://daviderogers.blogspot.com
“Over to you” – student based
learning
QCA – 2020 Vision
Data Collection
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Image copyright The Sun
Castleton: accessibility...http://www.geographypages.co.uk/peaks.htm
Increasing convergence of technology
Field Sketches ? Cheat….http://www.dumpr.net
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Google Earth• PLACEMARKS (add content…)
• Upload video to YouTube (phone videos) & embed
• PATHS (transects with waypoints)
• QUESTIONNAIRE DATA (plotted with GE Graph)
• LAND USE ZONING (with POLYGONS)
RISK ASSESSMENTS
With thanks to Paula Owens, Primary Curriculum Development Leader, GA
Image by Andrew Stacey
Isle of Arran – Flickr images
Aerial view of area with Google
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What are the risks? What action can we take to stay safe?
Risk: falling over on bumpy, hard car park surface.
Action: walk rather than run. Look carefully.
Risk: steep, slippery slope
Action: keep clear.
Risk: moving cars
Action: Look, listen & think. Stay close to adults
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Arial view via Google of Beach area to be visited2
Note the end terraced house.
What risks? What action can we take to stay safe?
Risk: sharp objects and other rubbish on beach
Action: check carefully before sitting down.
Risk: hot sun can burn skin
Action: sun cream and hats
2Here is the same house seen from ground level.
Parents’ Evenings and Open Evenings – data collection and publicity opportunities !
After the event...• Follow up• Picture competition• Displays of pupil work and quotes for publicity materials• ‘Modelling’
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ?
Selected slides taken fromhttp://www.geography.org.uk/secondary/ofstedconference/
David Holmes’ slidesField Studies Council Adviser
Presentation available athttp://www.slideshare.net/GeoBlogs
With thanks to:• Richard Meadows• Rachael Peryer• Paula Owens, GA Primary Curriculum Development Leader• David Holmes• Images by Andrew Stacey and me…• Members of SLN Forum, and the Edexcel Ning
http://newedexcelgeog.ning.com• http://www.geographypages.co.uk/virtual.htm• Jamie Buchanan Dunlop• David Rogers for Enquiry Slides and GeoOrienteering• GTT website Fieldwork section: Eleanor Coulber• The Sun website
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