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What kind of fieldwork can you do at school?

Ben and Amber are handing out questionnaires for their fieldwork project

Think of a question you want to answer or a problem that needs to be solved.

You could ask questions such as:Which area of the school grounds would be best for a wildlife garden?How can you make the school grounds safer?

Ben and Amber are handing out questionnaires for their fieldwork project
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Watch: Using fieldwork to solve problems

Play the video to watch Amber and Ben learn to use fieldwork to help solve problems within the school grounds.

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How do you carry out fieldwork at school?

Ben and Amber are presenting their findings to the class

There are lots of questions you could think of before you do fieldwork in your school grounds. For example:

  • How many racks for bikes and scooters do we need?
  • How could we find out what lives in the school pond?
  • Where could we make a wildlife garden?
  • Which part of the school grounds gets the most rain?
  • How many people come to school every day?

Take a look at this step-by-step guide to carrying out fieldwork:

Image gallerySkip image gallerySlide 1 of 4, An aerial photo of a school to plan fieldwork investigations, 1. Plan your fieldwork Look at photographs of your school to plan what question you would like to answer and what you are going to find out.
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Activity 1: Reading graphs

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Activity 2: Fieldwork in your school quiz

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