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Level 8 Geography – Geelong, Barwon Heads & Ocean Grove Coastal Fieldwork
Name
Group Number
Identify the following stops on the above map:
Stop 1: Eastern Beach.
Stop 2: Barwon Heads East.
Stop 3: Barwon Heads South.
Stop 4: Ocean Grove.
The itinerary of the day will be as follows:
9:00 – Leave WSC.
9:45 – Arrive at Eastern Beach.
10:30 – Leave Eastern Beach.
11:00 – Arrive Barwon Heads.
12:00 – Leave Barwon Heads.
12:15 – Lunch in Ocean Grove.
13:00 – Meeting at bus after lunch.
13:15 – Arrive at Ocean Grove Beach.
13:45 – Leave Ocean Grove.
15:00 – Arrive back at WSC.
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Before the excursion At each stop there will be a series of observations, data and images to collect. Always stay in your designated group, and be mindful of the natural environment and general public throughout the day (e.g. pick up rubbish, stick to foot paths, don’t block walking tracks). Be cautious around water and act sensibly! On the day you will need to bring the following:
Clothes for all weather conditions (particularly cool weather).
Good walking shoes (spare pair of socks?)
Hat / sunscreen.
Umbrella.
Clipboard – handout, blank paper.
Pen and lead pencil.
Fully charged mobile phone with designated apps downloaded – be careful to preserve the battery.
Morning tea, lunch and/or money.
Binoculars?
Compass? In the table below offer a hypothesis about each of the coastal environments based on their location and aerial photograph. Be sure to get your hypothesis signed off by me on the morning of the excursion. Your hypothesis should include discussion of the following:
Type of coastal environment (e.g. depositional, erosional).
Spheres at each site (i.e. hydrosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere).
Processes (e.g. erosion, refraction, longshore drift).
Human impacts and management.
Location Hypothesis
Eastern Beach
Barwon Heads East
Barwon Heads South
Ocean Grove
Teacher Sign-off
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Stop 1: Eastern Beach
Photograph of Eastern Beach in 1950 taken approximately from Austin Park (looking east).
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Stop 1: Eastern Beach You are to complete the below table for the entire portion of your designated area. Record the coordinates from where you collect all data, be it imprinted on a photo or recorded in the table below. Ensure that you have both a ‘clean’ and data imprinted image for any photo taken.
Category Observations Coordinates
Lithosphere
Type of soil
Type and width of landform
Hydrosphere
Type of waves
Frequency
Height
Reflection, refraction or longshore drift
Cycle of tides
Intertidal zone
Atmosphere
Direction
Speed
Biosphere
Types
Impact on site
Human impacts
Features e.g. groyne, seawall.
Activities e.g. fishing, surfing.
Management e.g. signage, fencing.
General Observations Example:
Evidence of erosion.
Potential impacts of sea level rise
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Stop 2: Barwon Heads East
Photograph of Barwon Heads East taken in 1935 (looking south).
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Stop 2: Barwon Heads East You are to complete the below table for the entire portion of your designated area. Record the coordinates from where you collect all data, be it imprinted on a photo or recorded in the table below. Ensure that you have both a ‘clean’ and data imprinted image for any photo taken.
Category Observations Coordinates
Lithosphere
Type of soil
Type and width of landform
Hydrosphere
Type of waves
Frequency
Height
Reflection, refraction or longshore drift
Cycle of tides
Intertidal zone
Atmosphere
Direction
Speed
Biosphere
Types
Impact on site
Human impacts
Features e.g. groyne, seawall.
Activities e.g. fishing, surfing.
Management e.g. signage, fencing.
General Observations Example:
Evidence of erosion.
Potential impacts of sea level rise
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Stop 3: Barwon Heads South You are to complete the below table for the entire portion of your designated area. Record the coordinates from where you collect all data, be it imprinted on a photo or recorded in the table below. Ensure that you have both a ‘clean’ and data imprinted image for any photo taken.
Category Observations Coordinates
Lithosphere
Type of soil
Type and width of landform
Hydrosphere
Type of waves
Frequency
Height
Reflection, refraction or longshore drift
Cycle of tides
Intertidal zone
Atmosphere
Direction
Speed
Biosphere
Types
Impact on site
Human impacts
Features e.g. groyne, seawall.
Activities e.g. fishing, surfing.
Management e.g. signage, fencing.
General Observations Example:
Evidence of erosion.
Potential impacts of sea level rise
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Stop 4: Ocean Grove
Postcard of Ocean Grove from the 1960s (looking southeast towards Barwon Heads).
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Stop 4: Ocean Grove You are to complete the below table for the entire portion of your designated area. Record the coordinates from where you collect all data, be it imprinted on a photo or recorded in the table below. Ensure that you have both a ‘clean’ and data imprinted image for any photo taken.
Category Observations Coordinates
Lithosphere
Type of soil
Type and width of landform
Hydrosphere
Type of waves
Frequency
Height
Reflection, refraction or longshore drift
Cycle of tides
Intertidal zone
Atmosphere
Direction
Speed
Biosphere
Types
Impact on site
Human impacts
Features e.g. groyne, seawall.
Activities e.g. fishing, surfing.
Management e.g. signage, fencing.
General Observations Example:
Evidence of erosion.
Potential impacts of sea level rise
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Beaufort Wind Force Scale You will need this table to estimate the wind speed at each site.
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Tide Charts You will need these tables to estimate the cycle of tides and size of intertidal zones.
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Assessment The major assessment for our Coastal Environments unit will be comprised of the following tasks: Part A: Excursion booklet You will submit your completed data booklet with your observations and notes from the fieldwork. Part B: Image analysis (Word doc) In this part, you will utilise the image data you collected. More specific step-by-step instructions for how to do these steps will be given to you in class after the fieldwork.
1. Insert a clean (non-data imprinted) image from each stop into a Word document in landscape format and centred on a page. Note: Not all group members need to use the same images.
2. Using the text box and arrows as necessary, annotate the images to highlight landforms and
landscape features, and areas where particular human impacts on the coast are evident.
3. Upload the images you have used to Google Drive.
4. Using the latitude/longitude data from the imprinted image, locate the point from which the image was taken, using ‘Add Placemark’ in Google Earth. Use ‘Add image…’ to insert the web link between the correct image on Google Drive and the placemark.
5. With the ‘Add polygon’ tool, draw a representation, from the placemark, which approximates the
view taken in by the image. The spatial skill here is to relate your image (an oblique view), to the vertical satellite image in Google Earth. Below is an example for the 1935 Barwon Heads image in this booklet.
6. Screen capture images (like the example above) for each of your locations and paste them into your
Word document on the page following the relevant annotated image.
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Part C: Observations (Interactive Google Earth map data and Word document) In this part, you will use your observations from your group’s section of coast for specific locations (using coordinates). More specific step-by-step instructions for how to do these steps will be given to you in class after the fieldwork.
1. Using ‘Sheets’ in Google Docs (or Microsoft Excel), you will create a data file that contains the coordinates (latitude and longitude) along with your observation notes from your groups section of the coast at each stop.
2. You will import the spreadsheet data into Google Earth, which will map all your points with the associated observation data. You will now have an interactive map of all your data.
3. In the next step, you will export your group’s data as a KML file. These data files for the class will be combined and shared so the whole class has all the data for all sections of coast at each stop in the form of an interactive map.
4. Finally, based on the data to which you have access, you will write an individual written submission
(as a Word document) owhich addresses the following areas: a. Identify two specific landforms from the study areas and explain how natural processes
have created or modified that landform. b. Discuss how people have changed for good or bad, or manage change in the landscape, at
each stop using specific examples.
