Gredos Field Trip

After the trauma of the Year 9 and 11 exams is all over, papers marked and reports written, the oldies all no doubt sitting at the front of the coach, will have a good six hours to prepare themselves for the demands of the residential field trip.

Now I appreciate that the general consensus is that it´s a bit of a jolly with paintballing being high on the agenda but there is a real purpose to it especially for Year 11 Geography and Environmental Systems as for two days they will be waist high (well just above the knee!)in cold water gathering data for their Internal Assessment. A 2500 word epistle on whether or not the Rivers Tormes and Messogosso follow the model of an ideal stream profile.

Year 11 need to be very comfortable with the Bradshaw model, the Hjulstrom curve and all the depositional and erosional landforms that are normally found on a river. You can however leave out estuaries and deltas which are unlikely to occur high in the mountains!

The Barcelona Field Studies Centre has an excellent website that details a wide variety of methods of data representation and presentation.

IGCSE Geography - Fieldwork Data Presentation

View more OpenOffice presentations from Richard Allaway.

The ever fabulous Richard Allway has done it all for me, and made a comprehensive list of all the methods that you could possibly want to use to present your data. Now wasn´t that nice of him?

Virtual River is good, a little bit old fashioned but excellent for covering all of the relevant information that you absolutely positively have to know for Gredos.