Phase 2

FIELD WORK

What is Field Work?

  • First hand experience of real things outside the classroom
    objects, events, places & people
  • Hands-on experience within the classroom
  • Collecting raw data from primary sources

Why do Field Work?

  • Reality, facts, information & truth
  • Motivation, relevance to real life, energizing
  • Understanding, concept formation and development

How to do Field Work?

  • How do you develop the context?
    • Project Approach
    • Preparation for field work
    • Fieldwork follow-up
  • What are useful strategies?
    • Adult-child ration
    • General tour
    • Additional tasks
    • Multiple visits
  • What equipment and materials do you need?
    • Clipboards, paper, pencils, wax crayons, magnifiers...

How do you arrange a field trip?

  • School Policy
  • Access to the field site
  • Preliminary visit
  • Adult volunteers
  • Permission
  • Safety

What do the children do for field work?

  • Use all relevant senses
  • Field sketches
  • Make rubbings of textures
  • Write field notes
  • Count
  • Measure
  • Compare
  • Observe processes
  • Look for cause and effect relations
  • Interview people at the site

Examples:

A PROJECTS-L example of Phase II Planning
A field trip diary on the Grafton Project submitted to PROJECTS-L



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