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Steps Towards the Rock Face - Introducing Fieldwork
These are classroom based resources designed to show students how to prepare for fieldwork and perform a group survey of geologically-interesting points in their immediate locality. The resource consists of three units:
FW1: Thinking it through - indoor preparation for fieldwork, including discussing the reasons for doing fieldwork, practising observations on specimens and making a simple clinometer
FW2: Rocks from the big screen - a classroom simulation of a field site, using a colour slide of a coastal rock exposure (not included in this resource), enabling students to practise observing, measuring, recording and interpreting geological features
FW3: Rock trail - a group survey of the points of geological interest in the locality of the school, leading to a class report and presentation which can be produced as a handbook or display.
Each unit is designed to take 80 minutes, including homework. The units follow a progressive sequence, from FW1 to FW3, but can be used free-standing if required.
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