Ideas for using the new RGS-IBG Walk the World website for local fieldwork.

1. Walk the World
http://www.walktheworld.org.uk/
Launched this week by Nick Crane
Developed by RGS-IBG

3. Connections
Follow a walk…

4. Submitting a Walk
To create a walk you need four ingredients:
1. You need evidence of good links to at least 15 other countries in an area that
you can comfortably walk around; and to know the stories behind those
links. The links become the points of interest on the walk.
2. You need to plan the route between the points of interest so that the walk is easy
and fun to follow, and to make a map of that route. Ideally the walk starts and ends
at the same place. We suggest using the free Ordnance Survey Get a Map service to
create your route. It's free to register and use the site.
3. You need, ideally, a theme to the walk. This theme will tie together the stories at
the points of interest and help you to create a more interesting walk for the user.
4. Finally, you will need to write a commentary for the walk, and this will include
the stories at each point of interest, and the directions for how to get to the next
point of interest on the walk. If you can attach some photos of points of interest
that would be really good too.

5. Activity
• Plan how we will use this website with
students
• Take a walk outside the school and see what
connections we can document
• Submit walk to the website

6. Pupil ‘roles’
• Researcher
• ‘Spotter’ – looking for possible links
• Cartographer – route planning and map making
• Photographer
• Risk assessor
• Commentary author
• Editor – pulls the walk together
• IT support

7. Badges made with Big Huge Labs

10. Expansion

11. The Press release
The school newsletter
Parental involvement
Include the school as a point of
interest…
Over to you…
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