Digimap for Schools - April 2022

1. Digimap for Schools
Helping you to be outstanding in your field.

2. Alan Parkinson
King’s Ely Junior
GA President 2021-2

3. Preparation / risk assessments
Data collection & presentation
Marking on routes for transects and walks
Adding images
Catch up with previous webinars for plenty of practical tips.
E.g. Kit Rackley’s outstanding one
Darren Bailey’s webinars on how to use the functionality of D4S

5. National Fieldwork Week - beginning 6th June 2022
https://www.geography.org.uk/National-Fieldwork-Week

6. All classes outside during that week - school, city.

7. Adding in layers
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Different-layers-of-data-can
-be-combined-through-a-GIS-to-represent-realistic-and_fig3_31
8236667

8. Fieldwork - former GA Presidents

9. Fieldwork
“Fieldwork is the best and most immediate means of bringing the
two aspects of the subject (i.e. a body of knowledge and a
distinctive method of study) together in the experience of the pupil.
Therefore, fieldwork is a necessary part of geographical education;
it is not an optional extra”
(Bailey, 1974)
https://gapresidents.blogspot.com/2019/10/19
85-patrick-bailey.html
https://gapresidents.
blogspot.com/2020/0
4/1961-mr-geoffrey-
e-hutchings.html

10. 1979
Professor John
Allan Patmore
https://gapresidents.blogspot.com/2020/03/1979-professor-j
ohn-allan-patmore.html
Observation is the key to the importance
of landscape to the geographer. Contact
with the actual landscape is contact with
reality. Confined within classroom walls,
geography is an impoverished shadow,
like chemistry without experiments or
biology without recourse to tangible
specimens of plants and animals.
J Allan Patmore, 1980

11. OS GetOutside Champion - 2018-2020

12. OS Puzzle Books - local puzzles

13. Existing
fieldwork
resources -
free for all to
access
Doreen
Massey
Maps as a
surface on
which stories
take place…

14. Lenses

15. Brand it up… Share with the school community.
https://twitter.com/ElyScheme

16. Adding your
own data
CSV files
https://digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/help/quick-guides/ex
plore-and-report/

17. Excel format
CSV format

19. Image copyright: Ian Ward

20. Risk Assessment

21. Geograph image search

22. Base Maps for Fieldwork

23. Colouring-in version for land use mapping
Certain scales only

24. Seaside vocabulary

25. Where was the pier?

26. https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~sheilawb/genealogy/hunsta
nton_pier.htm

28. Cloud free aerial imagery - Aerial and AerialX (with labels)

30. Image Search: Geograph

31. Taking it further - RGS resource
https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/coasts-hunstanton-cliffs-and-nw-norfolk/

32. Free OS app: OS Locate - from iOS/Android stores
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/os-locate/id810024913#?platf
orm=iphone

33. GeogIT App - £2.49 from iOS/Android store
Exports as CSV file with locations.

34. Ely High Street

36. Land Use Mapping

37. RICEPOTS or some other classification…

38. Discussions
Discuss the patterns of land-use that are observed. Students should be able to discuss the most common
land-use and reasons why particular activities might be missing from the map.
Discuss with students what else could be added to the map as well as the land use? If time permits, students
could identify a method for doing this.
Building Heights: a number label can be added to show the number of floors in a building – we would expect
this to be higher near the centre, where land values are higher, and buildings are often many stories high.
Position of waste paper bins: this, and other street furniture can contribute to the way that an area is used, or
misused
Location of CCTV cameras: if these are present, does that suggest high crime levels, or do they improve safety
and security?
The area that is covered by a CCTV camera could also be visualised using the buffer tool.
Location of graffiti: many councils will use GIS to identify locations where graffiti is found, to prioritise the work
of cleaning teams.

39. Flickr Album - Summer 2008
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geographypages/albums/72157607290265271

40. Virtual Fieldwork
Chris Durbin - “a virtual fieldtrip is like a virtual pint of beer”

41. ‘The Old Ways’
pp. 188
https://www.slideshare.net/GeoBlogs/sagt-presentation-13-backup
-copy

43. Adding routes for a walk (unfamiliar locations)

44. Adding images
Mentimeter - SCALE
https://twitter.com/i/status/1513547618630217736
https://www.mentimeter.com/app

47. National Fieldwork Week
https://www.geography.org.uk/National-Fieldwork-Week
A simple, common theme of ‘Change’ has been chosen as this allows flexibility in deciding what to investigate to
best advantage.
Most areas will have experienced significant changes, many because of the pandemic. This will be an opportunity
to take our classes out to investigate, observe, discover, challenge, test out ideas and gain a deeper and wider
understanding of the world around them. You could combine your fieldwork with events to celebrate the
Platinum Jubilee in early June.
Remember, if you are busy during National Fieldwork Week you can always choose your own date.

48. Following straight after this webinar
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/geogli
ve-8-supporting-fieldwork-in-ey-and
-primary-tickets-323371862947
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgzLz6CzszzDS1xZIf3ZqzQ

49. Coming in 2025: GCSE Natural History
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1179130576231443

50. Thanks for listening
Make sure to catch up with previous webinars
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