Field Site Visits
Field sites are locations where students can go to investigate more about their topic. Field sites can be somewhere else in the building, around the neighborhood, or a field trip location. During a field site visit it is important that students are focused on using the visit to find answers to their questions about the project topic.
Slides Project
Students used their playground as a field site. They took clipboards for notes and did observational drawings.
Tree Project
Students went outside to feel, observe, and investigate the trees in their neighborhood and how they were changing.
Bakery Project
Students visited a local bakery during their project to learn more about how baked goods are made and sold.
Other Field Site Examples
Field Site
Walk around School, neighborhood buildings
Grocery bakery, local bakery, kitchen with oven
Garbage truck that visited center
Fire station
Shoe store, cobbler
School/parent/community garden or green house
The Grove nature preserve, aquarium
Dog training area, groomer, pet store, shelter
Delivery truck, staff cars, mechanic shop, tire store, car wash
pipes in school (Bathroom, kitchen, boiler)
local salon
Medical center, hospital, Walgreen's clinic
Music shop, school band room
Chick incubator at Museum, local chicken coop
Classroom frog tank, Aquarium, Nature Museum
Hamster in classroom, Pet shop
local pond
Neighbor's garden, local greenhouse, grocery store
School gym, store that sells balls
Project Topic
BUILDINGS
BAKERY
GARBAGE TRUCK
FIREFIGHTER
SHOES
PLANTS
TURTLES
DOGS
WHEELS
PIPES
BEAUTY SALON
DOCTOR
DRUM
EGGS
FROG
HAMSTER
POND
MELONS
BALLS
Can't go on a field site?
Sometimes a field site can come to you. Students studying school buses were able to get a local bus company to drive a bus over to their location for a site visit.