Fieldwork
Good Practice
Fieldwork is most effective when it is deliberately structured to be engaging and meaningful
Nundy, 1999
Many of our students enjoy learning outside of the classroom, but how do we ensure that our Geography fieldtrips constitute effective learning episodes as well as being fun and engaging?
These pages will give you ideas for structuring your fieldwork activities to make most of the fantastic opportunity that fieldwork provides for teaching and learning. Have you thought about developing a fieldwork “mystery”, or encouraging your students to take action in the local area? Find out more on these pages.
There is also a section written by teachers for teachers: fieldwork activities that really work with case study evidence to prove it.
Innovative Fieldwork
Anthony Cheetham from Highfield Science Specialist School recently received an RGS-IBG Innovative Geography Teaching Grant to develop a "geographical murder mystery" based on fieldwork in North Wales. An article about the project was published in the Ordnance Survey magazine 'Mapping News'.