Make Your Fieldwork More Interesting

Make Your Fieldwork More Interesting

Nick LapthornHead of Centre, FSC Nettlecombe [email protected]

Identify what makes fieldwork more interesting

Develop outline activities to invigorate your fieldwork

Some ideas to try

During the workshop...

Support classroom topics

To learn ‘skills’ for

assessment

Developing skills and learning new

ones

Providing opportunities that cannot be achieved within a classroom

Why are you going

out?To complete Controlled

Assessment

Fun?

What MYFMI?

Think back... 1. What fieldwork do you remember doing at school?

2. What made it memorable?

What MYFMI?

Fun

Social

Different

Stimulating

Relevant

Engaging

The 6 Ps (or Nick’s version of it! )◦Participating in ◦Planning◦Promotes◦Positive ◦Pupil◦Performance

Engaging students

Fieldwork Ownership

◦ Defining the task

◦ Individual research

◦ Discovering/exploring/deciding the sites

◦ Google Earth (using layers) & Google Maps

Engaging students

Main reasons for fieldwork Curriculum assessment

◦ Common Entrance◦ GCSE Controlled Assessment◦ AS ‘skills’ paper◦ A2 extended investigation

Adding Value

Technology

What do our senses tell us about the environment we are in?

◦Sight◦Sounds◦Smells◦Textures◦Taste (?)

Sensual Geography!

Using the images provided, think of an activity that uses◦Sight◦Sounds◦Smell◦Touch◦Taste[?]

Task

Using the images provided, think of an activity that uses◦Sight◦Sounds◦Smell◦Touch◦Taste[?]

Task

Field sketching

Geograph◦ http://www.geograph.org.uk/ ◦ What makes a location ‘iconic’◦ Choose a picture from a location that depicts your

feeling about the site

Field Sights

Sound maps Sound CDs Audio tours – podcast of the visit Soundscapes

◦ The Free Sound Project◦ http://www.freesound.org/forum/index.php

Why not create a soundscape mp3?

Sounds

Sound CDs

Smells The powerful sense for

evoking memories

Create smell maps

Smelly cocktails

What textures are there within the locality? Where have they come from?

◦ Local/imported – why?◦ Natural/man-made

Touch

Psychogeography

Nick LapthornFSC Nettlecombe CourtWillitonSomersetTA4 4HT

www.field-studies-council.org/nettlecombecourt

[email protected]

Any other ideas?