GEOGRAPHY
Investigating Environmental Quality
Using photographs, maps, field sketches and other fieldwork techniques, students perform an environmental quality assessment in central Hammersmith. The development of the area in the past, the current environment and a variety of future scenarios are researched and debated.
Links to Geography Unit 1
Fulham Reach: changing urban land-use over time
Fulham Reach provides an excellent case study of an area of change; pre-industrial market gardens, riverside wharves and factories in the 18th and 19th centuries, post-industrial decline and then waterfront redevelopment. Students use direct observation, maps, field sketching and photographs to investigate the processes which have shaped this area.
Links to Geography Unit 3
HISTORY
Victorian Industrialisation in Hammersmith
An introduction uses maps and photographs to trace the changes which occurred in Hammersmith during the 18th and 19th Centuries. This is followed by a trail which visits important local sites and highlights features of the period.
Links to History Unit 11
SCIENCE
Habitat investigation
A visit to the river foreshore to observe and describe the conditions in a local habitat. Through river dipping students are given a chance to record and identify invertebrate life and environmental conditions in the river. They also consider feeding relationships, adaptations, invertebrate classifications and the limiting factors which are important in this habitat.
Links to Science 8d
CITIZENSHIP
Developing the School Grounds
The current use and needs of the school are identified through mapping, environmental quality assessment and group discussion and other techniques. A proposal for the development of the grounds is developed and an action plan formulated.
Links to Citizenship Unit 18
CROSS CURRICULAR SESSIONS
Cultural Heritage of Shepherds Bush Market
A tour of the market where children will learn about the history, changes and cultural influences . The aim is to discover how the market started off as a traditional London street market and has evolved into an ethnically, culturally and socially diverse shopping experience in West London, reflecting how our city is developing and growing culturally today.
Suitable for upper KS2 and KS3.
