Session 1
Fieldwork on the foreshore and riverside trail includes recording river features; assessing and recording water quality through water and invertebrate sampling; gathering evidence of how people have used and changed the river and the environmental issues which arise from these changes. Indoors we look at what photographs and maps both past and present can reveal about the local area.
Session 2
Pupils then practice investigative skills, using both maps and photographs to interpret the local settlement and find out how (and why)_ the area has changed. At Shadwell, we explore the old London Docks, at Trinity Buoy Wharf we go up London’s only lighthouse and investigate the East India Docks, while at Greenwich, we follow a historic trail around the Naval College and Cutty Sark and find out how life has changed since Victorian times.
Sites: Shadwell, and Greenwich.
