Map It – Bike It – Walk It

FieldworkAim: Today we are going to be going

out and collecting information about the area around our school.

• How are we going to do that?• What information are we going to

collect?

Group Fieldwork Recording Sheet 1. Site Number: Group: 2. Site description: (appearance, street name etc)

3. User Count Cars/Vans Lorries/Buses Pedestrians

Motorbike/scooter Bikes Both directions for 2

minutes (tally)

4. Get the students to individually record a paragraph/ Haiku on their OWN sheets about how the site makes them feel, e.g. Happy, scared, safe etc (For the Wordle): 5. Score your area’s characteristics: Characteristic - 3 - 2 - 1 0 +1 +2 +3 6. Take 3 Photos of the area 7. How could the area be improved? (Made safer/ more f riendly) 8. Draw a soundscape of your area: 9. Bikeability of the road (Use all the information collected and the information on the back of the sheet to decide the level): Level Reason

BikeabilityBikeability• Create a way of grading the roads for safety.•3 different grades

•Traffic free•Some traffic•Heavy Traffic

Site Description

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Individual Fieldwork Recording Sheet

Name:

At each site you get to you need to write a paragraph or two describing what the site is like and hw it makes you feel. Use good descriptive words (Safe, dangerous, happy, noisy etc)

Doing fieldwork safely• Make sure you have any medication

you might need• Make sure you have sensible clothing

for being outside• Stay with your group at all times• Only cross the road when instructed

to do so