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landscape assessment - part 2 - the assessment
Ref: L12b

Now that you have a better understanding of the language of the Landscape Assessment form you are equipped to do a landscape assessment of your own.

You will need to practice and fine tune your skills before going out and doing a landscape assessment in the field. Landscape assessments can be undertaken in a variety of places in order to record the features and characteristics of different types of landscape. In the Objective Checklist you will soon learn to identify and describe the features you see - the land may be flat or steep, the ground might be covered in conifer woods or pasture, the beach might be rocky or sandy, the landscape may contain streams or pylons or houses.

You will also learn to describe how you feel about different landscapes by completing the Subjective Checklist and deciding whether you think the colours are muted or garish, is the view offensive or beautiful, boring or interesting?

You are going to undertake a landscape assessment for the landscape viewed from a classroom window at your school or use one or more of the following photographs:

Cornish rural landscape with houses
Cornish rural landscape with houses
Moorland landscape - Warleggan Marsh
Moorland landscape - Warleggan Marsh
Panoramic view of rural landscape
Panoramic view of rural landscape

If you would like to choose a different landscape, click here and choose one or more landscapes from those illustrated. You can click on the images to get a higher resolution image of the photograph.

• You will need a print out of the Landscape Assessment form (L12a diag).

• Complete all the sections in the form, remember to sketch a picture of the landscape that you have assessed or take a photograph.

• Once you have completed your classroom view landscape assessment compare your assessment sheet with someone else.

• What features have you recorded that are the same? What differences are there between the two assessment forms?

• Now that you are becoming more skilled, complete a landscape assessment form for the view out of a bedroom window at home, illustrate your assessment with a sketch.

You are now ready to do a landscape assessment in the field!

• You will need a copy of the landscape assessment form, something to lean on and something to write with.

In groups of three people do a landscape assessment of a view on your visit to a nearby stream or river.

When you return to the classroom you will need to mark the places where you did your landscape assessments on a map.

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