Stage 3. Field research

To conduct a field investigation, develop a field log or digital record, and use a checklist to record and organize what you are viewing.

Check list

The field log or book diary is a notebook where you write what will be watched; in this case, on the biodiversity of species and ecosystems that surrounds them. For example, if there are recorded rivers or other water source in your area, if there are forests or rangelands, agricultural, mining, climate and its relationship with the flora, etc.; and based on these natural resources, identify productive activities that take place: if there are oil fields, geothermal plants, if one crop, livestock, fisheries, forestry or other tourist area.

This data can be collected through your checklist (print or digital).

Archive all data and materials from his observation and research, to develop a digital presentation which compiled everything all the information get in the field; images where portray their natural environment, the biodiversity, the socioeconomic characteristics and activities presented that evidence of impairment in the geosystems (hydrosphere: rivers; lithosphere: soils; and atmosphere: air).

Teachers propose a brainstorming with a reflection about the environmental impact of economic activities in one location, ie, how human activity determines the environmental conditions of a community; for example, if a factory is not careful in emissions yielding surely there the air will be contaminated.

Afterwards, the students share the cases of environmental degradation to have been identified in your locally in the Discussion Forum, and in the project´padlet.

Forum questions

• Describe the site where you conducted your field research and how you developed it!
• What are the environmental problems that affect your community?
• What actions can be taken in your community to improve the environmental problem which you research?
• What are the short-, medium-and long-term consequences of the environmental problems that you observed?
• What would your community be like, if preventive measures are not taken to mitigate the damage in the environment and make sustainable use of natural resources?