Field lectures or field trips are visits to certain objects outside the campus environment, which aim to achieve certain instructional goals (Sumaatmadja, 1984). Lecturers are invited to see directly the object to be studied, develop thinking and stimulate creativity because Lecturers witness and prove themselves natural phenomena that occur. Through the excavation of learning resources that exist in the environment, the lecturer has indirectly brought the lecturer closer to the environment. Learning activities like this include ways to educate, mature, and free Lecturers in developing Lecturer thinking (Learning to think), adding teaching experience (Learning by experience), creating a sense of care (Learning to care), and a sense of responsibility towards the surrounding community (Learning). to live together) (Onah, 2008). Field knowledge is an important aspect to support learning in geography. Therefore, it is necessary to extract field information directly as an academic experience that will increase the theoretical understanding experienced on campus. Activities carried out in the field such as explaining with various approaches (spatial, ecological, regional complex) to regional geographical phenomena such as (karst system, volcano, lake or swamp).
This fieldwork activity was carried out in the field for 1 day with 15 lecturers as participants. The field guide consists of 1 competent expert at the national level in the field of geography. The planned activity will be carried out in the Menoreh Mountains Area, Kulon Progo Regency. The purpose of this activity is to increase the lecturer’s understanding of the field. The expected output of this activity is an increase in the theoretical understanding of lecturers which is in line with experience. Menoreh Mountains were chosen because of their historical value, tourist attraction and complex geomorphological conditions. Menoreh Mountains is a mountainous area that stretches in the western region of Kulon Progo Regency in the Special Province of Yogyakarta, east of Purworejo Regency, and part of Magelang Regency in Central Java Province; as well as a natural boundary for the three districts.
The highest peak in the Menoreh Mountains is on Mount Ayamayam which has a height of more than 1,021 meters above sea level. The Menoreh Mountains are known in history as the defense base of Prince Diponegoro and his followers in the Java War (1825–1830) against the Dutch East Indies. One of his sons, Bagus Singlon or Raden Mas Sadewo (son of Prince Diponegoro with R. Ay. Mangkorowati) led the resistance in this area. Raden Mas Sodewo or Ki Sodewo fought in the Kulonprogo area from the south coast to Bagelen and Samigaluh. The Menoreh Mountains area geomorphologically has a complex landform. The complex physical condition of the Menoreh Mountains area is the existence of endogenic and exogenic processes that act on various rocks to form the landscape that exists today. Some of the rocks found include: sandstone, sandy marl, claystone, and limestone of the Middle Eocene; andesite, andesite breccia and tuff rocks which are the result of the Menoreh Volcano activity in the Oligocene; limestone and coral deposited in the Lower Miocene; and colluvium material deposited in the Quarter Age
