This activity helps students to read the landscape. Questions should be used to guide students in gathering and analyzing information on the Worksheet: Landscapes. Encourage students to look at the roads as well as the landscape. Individual students or small groups can be assigned selected questions. Following the field trip, discuss questions and concepts and have students write a short essay summarizing their conclusions about the significance of what they saw.

• Where is this farm located? What is the name of the farm? How and why is the place name significant?
  
• What are the farm's prominent geological and geographical features?
  
• How would you describe the terrain?
  
• Who owns the land? Who uses it? Who lives or works here?
  
• What crops are grown and what livestock is raised here?
  
• How are the boundaries defined on this farm? Fences, walls, plantings, roads?
  
• What roads go through the area around the farm and where do they lead?
  

Analyzing data

• What evidence is there of past land use?
  
• Is there evidence of how this land was divided originally?
  
• How well is the land maintained?
  

• Who settled this land originally and subsequently? Why
  
• How have people changed or altered the natural environment here?
  
• What do these changes in the natural environment tell us about historic social and economic changes?
  

• Why is this farm significant?
  
• What does this farm add to our knowledge of history?