• 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

• 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...

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

• 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