Year 7 - Geography
Fieldwork: Planning and collecting survey data
Geography: what makes a geographer?
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Unit Summary
Pupils will use atlases, maps and globes to develop their locational knowledge of the world. Pupils will focus in on specific places to develop an awareness of how geographers examine place. OS maps and GIS will be used alongside fieldwork to build pupils' procedural knowledge.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to complete an environmental quality survey on your school site.
Key Notes
- Fieldwork enquiries allow geographers to investigate a place or changes over space.
- Geographical enquiry includes asking questions, collecting data, presenting data, analysing, conclusions and evaluation.
- Key questions or hypotheses can be used to frame a geographical enquiry.
- Surveys can help geographers to find interesting patterns of data at their field site.
Vocabulary To Learn
- Enquiry: An enquiry is an investigation of a geographical feature or issue.
- Fieldwork: Fieldwork is investigating the outdoors using geographical tools and thinking to gather information or data.
- Data collection: Data collection is when you collect the data for your investigation using a range of methods.
- Hypothesis: A hypothesis is a statement which can be tested.
- Environmental quality survey: An environmental quality survey is a type of survey which assesses different factors that affect the environment in one location such as cleanliness and green space.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Fieldwork must take place in an unfamiliar location.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.
Fieldwork enquiries allow geographers to investigate a place or changes over space. Geographical enquiry includes asking questions, collecting data, presenting data, analysing, conclusions and evaluation.
2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'Enquiry'
An enquiry is an investigation of a geographical feature or issue.
3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.
Mistake: Fieldwork must take place in an unfamiliar location. Correction: While it can be exciting to do fieldwork in a new place, fieldwork actually can take place anywhere.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Different map projections Study Guide
- Features of an OS map Study Guide
- Fieldwork: Analysing, concluding and evaluating survey data Study Guide
- Fieldwork: Presenting survey data Study Guide
- Four and Six Figure Grid References Study Guide
- Geography in secondary school Study Guide
- Latitude and longitude Study Guide
- Locational knowledge of the world Study Guide
- Scale and distance on OS maps Study Guide
- Showing height and relief on OS maps Study Guide
- Using a GIS to locate and analyse places around the world Study Guide
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