Guidelines, tests and interactive content to get the most out of field sketches. Suitable for school (GCSE), college (A Level) and university (undergraduate) students.

How to draw field sketches.
Click on the image to download the pdf explaining how to draw field sketches.

A pdf of a PowerPoint outlining the steps to follow when drawing a geological field sketch.

Click on the image to download ‘Folds and faults’.

An Authorware package for students to use to test their understanding of faults and folds.

Download ‘folds and faults.zip’ and unzip into a new folder. Open the folder and run: faultsnfolds5.exe

Click on the image to download ‘how to get the most out of field sketches’.

This is an Authorware self-testing exercise, which consists of a series of exercises to help students understand how to make field sketches and appreciate how an accurate field sketch can help them to understand the Geology of an area.

It includes a glossary of terms.

Download the fs1.zip file and unpack it into a folder. Run fs1.exe from within that folder

Click on the image to download ‘Getting the most out of field sketches’.

‘Getting the most out of field sketches’ is a web-based package that shows how field sketches are constructed.

It shows the field photograph, the field sketch and then items that could be labelled on the field sketch.

It is accompanied by a pdf file of the sketches.

Click on the image to download the pdf of the field sketches used in ‘Getting the most out of field sketches’.

This is a pdf of the sketches used in ‘Getting the most out of field sketches’.