Fieldwork
Planning your fieldtrip
Planning a fieldtrip?
When planning your fieldtrip there are many things to consider...
- Where are you going to go?
- What will be the aims and objectives of the trip?
- What procedures do you have to follow?
- How will you staff the trip?
- What activities will the students do?
- ...and many more!
These pages aim to help you organise your fieldtrip planning. Use the links to access useful planning lists and documents, and visit the subpages listed on the left of the page for ideas and resources to engage your students in fieldwork activities that are fun and at the same time highlight the relevance of geographical learning to our daily lives.
Fieldwork topics and themes
To help you with your fieldwork planning, the resources on the site have been organised according to their geographical subject content. Access the Fieldwork Topics and Themes pages to select resources for both human and physical geography fieldwork, and to locate activities that focus on developing your students' geographical skills.
Planning a trip?
These helpful links from the Real World Learning campaign will help get you started
- Hints and tips
- Out of Classroom Learning- practical information and guidance
- or check out the "Planning geographical fieldwork" pages of the GA Secondary Geography Handbook for a step-by-step approach to developing fieldwork or freshening up your existing trips. Buy your copy here
Planning a fieldtrip interactive
Are you in the process of planning a fieldtrip?
Use our interactive checklist tool to help you prioritise your tasks and make sure you don't forget anything.
Progression in Fieldwork
- Staff at FSC Brockhole have developed a framework for progression in fieldwork, suggesting when different skills and concepts could be introduced to fieldwork studies from Key Stage 1 to AS/A2. It forms a useful template for planning your fieldwork programme.
- Download this document
Documents to download
Download a list of useful fieldwork resources to help you develop your fieldwork programme
Follow-up first
- This presentation, written by Nick Lapthorn, Head of the Juniper Hall FSC Centre, highlights the importance of ensuring that you know what your students are going to do with their data before they collect it!
Encouraging your students to plan their fieldwork
- Sophie Macdowall, Head of Geography at Guildford High School, has contributed this planning sheet which her students complete before undertaking thier individual study. It encourages them to think through the whole fieldwork project before they start.