Every card in Fieldwork and skills, Year 7
The whole deck, in order — so you can read it through before your child ever sees it.
- Which instrument measures wind speed?
An anemometer
HintIt often has small cups that spin.
WhyThe faster the wind blows, the faster the cups turn. A hand-held digital one gives a reading in metres per second or kilometres per hour.
- Which instrument collects and measures rainfall?
A rain gauge
HintIt is a funnel over a measuring container, read in millimetres.
WhyIt is set in the open, away from trees and walls, and read at the same time each day so that the daily totals can be compared.
- You measure the width of a stream three times and take the mean. Why repeat the measurement?
To make the result more reliable
HintOne reading on its own might be a slip.
WhyA single reading can be thrown off by a slack tape or a misread number. Repeats show up odd results and the mean evens out small errors.
- Two groups count traffic on two different roads for ten minutes each. What else about the timing must match for the comparison to be fair?
The time of day
HintThink about rush hour.
WhyA count at 8.30 a.m. and a count at 2 p.m. differ for reasons that have nothing to do with the roads themselves.
- Why should fieldwork readings be written straight into a table on the spot?
So that none are forgotten or mixed up
HintThink about an hour later, back in the classroom.
WhyA table prepared in advance, with headings and units, makes sure each reading is recorded once, against the right site, in the same way.
- Which is the better enquiry question: 'What is the river like?' or 'Does the river get wider downstream?'
'Does the river get wider downstream?'
HintPick the one you could answer with a tape measure.
WhyA good enquiry question names something that can be measured and has a possible answer. 'What is it like?' gives you nothing to test.
- Your enquiry question is 'Is the high street busier on market day?' What would you count, and on which days, to answer it?
People passing, on a market day and on a normal day
Hint'Busier' is a comparison, so one set of numbers is not enough.
WhyThe question is a comparison, so data is needed for both situations, collected in the same place and in the same way.
- A photograph of the ground taken from an aircraft or a drone
An aerial photograph
HintThe describing word covers anything to do with the air.
WhySeen from above, the pattern of fields, roads and buildings is clear in a way it never is at street level.
- An aerial photo shows a grid of straight streets packed with small roofs, each with its own garden. What is the land use?
Housing
HintEach small roof has a family under it.
WhyLand use is what an area is used for. Rows of small buildings with gardens are homes; a few very large roofs with car parks suggest shops or industry.
- A field sketch needs a title and a direction. What else must be written on the drawing itself to turn it into geography?
Labels
HintWithout them, nobody knows what the lines are showing.
WhyA field sketch is a simple outline of a view with its key features named and explained. The notes carry the geography; the drawing only has to be clear.
1★ KS3-GEOG-FIE-0012
2★ KS3-GEOG-FIE-0013
3★ KS3-GEOG-FIE-0014
4★ KS3-GEOG-FIE-0015
5★ KS3-GEOG-FIE-0016
6★ KS3-GEOG-FIE-0017
7★ KS3-GEOG-FIE-0018
8★ KS3-GEOG-FIE-0019
9★ KS3-GEOG-FIE-0020
10★ KS3-GEOG-FIE-0021
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