[clareramos]

I have been asked to run a fieldwork for Year 9.

However I've never run one for year 9, as have mainly done Sixth Form and University fieldwork and some GCSE.

Does anyone have any advice on what would be good as can only think of uni ones and struggling to be able to bring it down to something that is interesting for Year 9s.

Current ideas are:
Gentrification or some form of housing survey
Plane table surveying
Environmental impact assessment
Tourism and it's impact
and some form of big project, most probably using a scenario and them using geographical and geological skills to get an answer and give a presentation or write a report.

Also may include a land use survey, if I can get access to data and speak to GIS specialists who can get access to equipment etc.

[Heyimdec]

At GCSE, we did a transect walk from suburbs to the city centre assessing land use and property type. Everybody seemed to enjoy it.

[clareramos]

It's a 5 day fieldtrip, don't know why that long, that's what the school wants. They are still deliberating on location, want people's opinions on the following

Day 1: Travel and introduction to fieldwork
Day 2: Physical Geography Day (Group A)/Human Geography Day (Group B)
Day 3: Human Geography Day (Group A)/Physical Geography Day (Group B)
Day 4: Project Day
Day 5: De-brief and travel

Human Geography
Housing Change
Looking at gentrification and how the housing changes in a settlement and how the settlement has changed over time by the housing and buildings

Tourism: Boom or Bust
Looking at how the area is used for tourism and how this affects the local area and how things are tailored towards tourism or not.

Physical Geography
Plane Table Survey
Drawing of a river bank or part of lake to make in to a map.

Environmental Survey
You are a member of the local council looking to develop part of a town/beach into a tourist centre, your role is to look at the environmental impacts of this and write an environmental impact assessment.

Project Day
Basing it on the two previous days.
The scenario is that a large company wants to build a new development on the edge of a town for new houses and some new hotels for tourists. You role is to look at the impacts that this could cause, and create a map showing this.



What do people think? project may change.