Geography Field Trip: Mapping the local area

This resource helps organise children in groups of five, providing each child with a ‘job’ to help the group map the local area. There is an accompanying sheet to guide additonal adults how to support the children whilst they are on the trip.

The resource:

• Provides a structured group-based approach to fieldwork.
• Enables all children, no matter their ability, to be active when on the field trip.
• Helps to raise awareness of the different jobs available by having a geographical knowledge.

Outcome of the field work
By the end of the field work, each group would have a sketch of the local area with length of each road, the number and types of houses/ shops as well as a collection of photographs of local amenities.

Follow up Work
After the field work, the children can work in their groups to use the sketch of the local area to create a scaled drawing (map).