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Access on Your Doorstep
Suggested Method:
This activity can be done using hardcopies of local maps and the pack photo cards or by using an interactive whiteboard, the photo cards from the pdf and a mapping software package.
Show photo cards that illustrate different land uses or land classes on your OS map, for example arable, urban greenspace, beach, commercial forestry, golf course etc. Ask the children to find areas on the OS map where similar land use or land management takes place. The photographs will help the children visualise and understand the maps.
Discuss land management and access issues for each of the land uses or landscape features. It may help to make a table with four columns:
- land type
- landowner concerns
- access rights
- access responsibilities
Try to discuss locally relevant issues. Examples might be:
- Safety issues (narrow tracks, timber lorries, farmyards, shooting);
- Dogs & livestock;
- Damage to historic or cultural heritage features;
- Litter;
- Damage to walls & fences;
- Disturbance to fishing & shooting interests;
- Pollution of water supplies;
- Disease transmission to livestock;
- Camping (litter, human waste, noise, invasion of privacy);
- Golf courses (disturbance to players, damage to playing surfaces);
- Fire razing.
Children could record their journey orally, pictorially or in writing.