Field Trip Kit

Items could include:

• Beating sheets (for laying under bushes to catch animals shaken off)
• Bamboo stakes (graduated)
• Bottles for water samples
• Bowls
• Bucketso Clipboard and plastic bags or plastic pockets
• Compass
• Forceps
• Funnel
• Girl Guide biscuit box (useful containers for kits)
• Gloves
• Hoops or quadrats (for population counts)
• Identification material, such as keys, posters, or pictures
• Knotted cord (knotted every 25 or 30 cm)
• Magnifying glasses
• Measuring tape
• Net (pantyhose)
• Paintbrushes
• Paint trays or palettes
• Paper towels or cotton wool
• Pattypans
• Pens and paper
• Pooter (apparatus for catching small animals)
• Pottles with lids
• Random number table
• Ruler
• Sieves
• Snips or scissors
• Stopwatch
• Thermometer
• Torch
• Towel
• Trowel or scoop
• Well trays, ice cube trays, or paint trays (for holding/sorting individual specimens)