Year 11 and 12 Geography students from Renmark High School participated in a fieldwork excursion to the Renmark Ski Site along Patey Drive on Monday, 1^st April. The fieldwork trip formed part of the students’ Stage 2 Geography studies and was lead with the generous help of Miss Evans.

The excursion actively enabled students to learn and collect a variety of physical geography fieldwork techniques, which included soil sampling, field sketching, line transects and vegetation health surveys to name a few.

Students stopped at three different sites, starting next to the Murray River and moving further away, to measure the level of human impact on the natural environment. At each of the three sites students repeated a series of fieldwork techniques that when analysed back in the classroom measured the level of human impact at each of the sites.  

Now that students have participated in the excursion they will complete an assessment task based on the usefulness and accuracy of the primary data they collected. The fieldwork trip, however also served a larger purpose in helping the students to think about possible primary data collection techniques they could use in their major independent fieldwork study that they will be completing in Term 2.  

Overall, it was a fantastic opportunity to escape the classroom and participate in real life geography.  

Nathan Rohrlach – Geography Teacher