Beginning your investigation
When you carry out your fieldwork investigation, you need to:
- be prepared.
- remember how to stay safe.
- remember your plans, but be ready to change them if you need to.
- record your findings carefully.
How should you carry out your investigation?
After you have researched and planned your fieldwork, it鈥檚 time to carry it out.
Here are some tips:
- remember to take all the tools and equipment you will need.
- keep in mind the plan you have made, but be prepared to change or adapt it in case something unexpected happens.
- make sure you wear sensible footwear and clothes, stay visible by wearing something bright and be prepared in case the weather is cold or wet.
- whilst carrying out your fieldwork, you need to take photographs or make labelled sketches of the place. This will help you remember what you have seen.
Watch: Rivers fieldwork investigation
Take a look at some more tips for your investigation:
1 of 8
End of image gallery
Watch: Wetlands fieldwork
Learn about fieldwork at a nature reserve in this 麻豆官网首页入口 Teach video.
Activity: Quiz 鈥 Carrying out fieldwork
Bitesize Primary games. gameBitesize Primary games
Play fun and educational primary games in science, maths, English, history, geography, art, computing and modern languages.
More on Fieldwork
Find out more by working through a topic
- count7 of 12
- count8 of 12
- count9 of 12