Slide to accompany a talk around how fieldwork should be approached in response to the 2016 GCSE Geography changes. Given as part of the Geographical Association's New Geography GCSE courses.

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• Consider the point of fieldwork
• Reflect on how our approach to fieldwork in response to GCSE change
• Explore the use of handheld technology

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Developingaloveoflearningand
intellectualcuriosity
Teachersloveteaching
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practise
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Pedagogy
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Students
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Every individual
achieves more than
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memorable

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Teachers are.
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Great geography teachers change the world

11. Testing times
Look through the available sample questions.
Attempt some.
How would provision have to change?
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12. 1 in 14 adults didn’t see any sunlight on
the Solstice
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13. Students must have a deeper understanding of
fieldwork
This is good
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What is the point of
fieldwork?

15. How do I go about a geographical enquiry?
Publish
Produce
your work
Select
the best Information
Gather
Information
Ask questions
Evaluate
Questions
answered?
Criteria met?
NoYes
Start
Here
Who? Where? When?
Why? What? How?
What do you need to find out?
How will you present the information?
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For and Against
Audience
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16. ‘Enquiry is not something to be defined once and for all
on paper. It is something to be developed in the
classroom in particular school and curriculum contexts.’
Margaret Roberts, Learning through enquiry, p25
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18. ‘To promote intellectual curiosity and a love of learning’
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19. Image Source via Flickr and Creative Commons
‘The videos you see are delightful, but they’re nothing like the
reality of being weightless.’
Chris Hadfield, quoted here.
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20. How do we engage
young people with
the emotion of
place?
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21. Thanks to Patcham High
School Art Department and Jo
Debens
High quality
teaching from
lesson one of
Year 7
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Stories

24. High quality teaching from lesson one of Year 7
Curriculum driven by enquiry
Geography first, exam second
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25. Two contrasting environments
Examination 15%
Signed statement of actual fieldwork
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27. Testing is good
Low stakes, high frequency
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2015/16
Year 10
2016/17
Year 11
2017/18
Slapton Sands 5 Day
residential
Local Day trip
Winter: Visit to the River Adur
Catchment – Mayfield Town
and Community Shopping
Flood defences.
Summer: Birling
Gap/Cuckmere
Haven/Rottingdean Coastal
investigation and land use
Full ‘CA’ style enquiries
Physical Trip to River Adur
Investigating ‘over the fence’
Settlement
Short Term
Lots and lots of data analysis woven throughout the curriculum. On-site and Off
High frequency , low stakes testing. Fieldwork embedded@davidErogers

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Geological Explorers (hand
held tech)
Settlement patterns
Impact of Syria / migration
South Downs and History
Sensory microclimate
Can we identify the teacher by
their car?
Swatch Nature –
Mission:Explore
John Muir Award and Eco-
Challenge with FSC
Field sketching
Long term
Lots and lots of fieldwork woven throughout the
curriculum – mostly on-site
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Primary
What is going on in there?

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Why do we allow Year 7s to stand still?
By Year 1 – local area settlement patterns, tourism and use of beach, farming
system, making maps of local area, journey to school, fieldwork as homework

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37. Action Planning Activity
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Engaging
Quality
Geography
Learning
outcomes
Appropriate
geographical
context
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Hold your ideas lightly
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43. Finding out
Recording
Measuring
Creating
Planning
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48. Skitch
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52. Combine Skitch
with MetOffice
App
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53. Bing Maps
through Chrome
browser
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56. Combine Bing
OS mapping with
Skitch
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60. Curiosity glasses
“Nothing is more fatal to the progress of the
human mind than to presume that our views of
science are ultimate, that our triumphs are
complete, that there are no mysteries in nature,
and that there are no new worlds to conquer.”
Humphrey Davy, quoted by Prof Brian Cox
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61. ‘It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere,
would much rather you weren’t doing it.’
Terry Practchett from the foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy,
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