The Great Newlands Trigonometrical Survey
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Created By: Jonny Huck
Currently Used By: Jonny Huck
Location: Newlands (Cat Bells)
Instructions
Gather the students outside the front of the centre and give out the equipment. Explain how fundamental mapping skills are to any Geographer (cover GPS accuracy issues!).
Get the students to work out where they are - get them to orientate the map as part of this, explaning what this is and why it is important.
Get them on a minibus and transport them to the car park at Little Town.
Again, get the students to work out where they are - get them to orientate the map as part of this, explaning what this is and why it is important.
Select a student to navigate you to the footbridge near Goldscopes Mine.
Demonstrate the use of the automatic levels (we are using them as a theodolite...) and compass and app to do a triangulation.
Challenge them to draw the missing river into the map as accurately as possible, using two "surveyed in" locations (do this yourself with the GPS).
JH will add more detail after a recce on the 2021 trip.
Leave 30 mins to walk back to the van and return to the centre.
Equipment
Students:
- Compass x 4
- Surveying Staff x 4
- Automatic level & Tripod x 4
- Set Square, or other straight edge of some sort x 4
- Walkie Talkie x 4
- Android mobile phones with waterproof case x 4 (2 will do), with the project app (to handle the triangulation maths)
- Pencil x 12 (one each)
- A4 Clip board x 12 (one each)
- Student Handout
Staff require:
- GPS receiver x 1
- Staff Handout x 1
