make your fieldwork more interesting
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Workshop presentation for the GA ISWG Conference (Oxford 2010).TRANSCRIPT
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
Any other ideas?