Keeping a Journal with Field Notes

Keeping Track of Your Days

River Source will provide a journal to you, which you will take at least 15 minutes a day to write in. Using your journal, take notes on the project your crew is working on or what you experienced that day. Journaling topics may include things you built, how you built them, what issues were addressed, who was involved, drawings from the day, or simply what your day looked like.  At the end of this internship you will be creating your own presentation and sharing  it with your community, and journaling will help you create this presentation.

NOTE: Journaling is about reflection, if you have a hard time writing paragraphs, you can write bulleted lists of things you did or enjoyed or saw. You may also draw instead of writing.

Here is a prompt to get you started

Open up your Journal to a clean page

Answer one or more of these questions:

1. What are some of your personal goals for the internship?
2. What are some of your professional goals for the internship?
3. What motivates you to protect water?
4. What is the name of a skill or talent that you have that you want to develop further?

Two types of journal entries we ask you to think about relates to Your Goals for the internship and writing a Daily Journal Entry.

Example of a Goals journal entry

Example of a Daily Journal Entry