Abstract: Social practice is an important way to know the society and self-improvement for college students. However, it is a difficult point that how to make the effective combination between professional knowledge study and social practice. In the previous work, the author has tried a teaching method named scientific investigation which combined the teaching of mollusk with the social practice of students. In this article, we introduced the design, implementation and effect of this method, so as to offer references for the summer social practice project performance in the new era.

Key words: zoology, mollusk, social practice, survey report, category