Hello all.
I really haven't been doing much. I finished the butterfly math guide yesterday and I'm working on the North Florida one for the rest of the week. This is my last week working, woohoo! I'm not sure if I'll be in class this week or not so I don't know if I'll be seeing everybody.
Fun fact. Today Ms. Dale told Taylor and I that there is this fungus called zombie fungus. An ant might eat a plant containing the fungus and then the fungus will eat away at the ant's brain. Eventually when the fungus is ready to spore the ant will climb up on a leaf on a tree and it's brain will just explode and the fungus will spread onto all the leaves around. Isn't that nuts??
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Monday, July 21, 2014
Approaching the end (I have no idea what week it is)
Well fun stuff!
Dr. Ellis is back from vacation and is beginning to read through our guides! It'll be great to get some feedback and be able to finalize the activities.
Today Taylor and I were able to test her Megalodon tooth activity in the museum and it was actually a lot of fun! We had visitors measure the sharks teeth (at the widest part) and multiply by 10 to figure out how long that particular shark would have been (1 inch of tooth equals 10 feet of shark). We also had a tape measure so that kids could have a visual for how long the shark was. We even had some adults come over who were really interested in the ratio that exists between the width of a tooth and the length of a shark.
Tomorrow we will be testing my Sue activity but I may have to take a different approach. The majority of our visitors today were 4-10 year olds (and only like two of the older kids knew multiplication) so I don't think the whole density concept is going to stick. I may just do measuring and then using the 1:40 scale and keep it relatively simple.
That's all I have! See y'all Wednesday!
Dr. Ellis is back from vacation and is beginning to read through our guides! It'll be great to get some feedback and be able to finalize the activities.
Today Taylor and I were able to test her Megalodon tooth activity in the museum and it was actually a lot of fun! We had visitors measure the sharks teeth (at the widest part) and multiply by 10 to figure out how long that particular shark would have been (1 inch of tooth equals 10 feet of shark). We also had a tape measure so that kids could have a visual for how long the shark was. We even had some adults come over who were really interested in the ratio that exists between the width of a tooth and the length of a shark.
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| Taylor awaiting visitors! |
That's all I have! See y'all Wednesday!
Monday, July 14, 2014
Week 10
Happy Monday!
Today is a short day for me so I'm super happy.
Last week has been the same ole same. I still haven't heard from Dr. Ellis (other than her checking in!) so I don't have any corrections I can make for my educator guides. Taylor and I did get an email from Amanda though and wants us to meet up with the camp people doing Sue and Meg to collaborate some ideas (Max and Callum I believe that's you?) We finished painting sharks teeth last week so the activity testing will be ready to go this week! My guess would be Thursday but Taylor isn't in today so we have yet to discuss it.
I don't really have much else. I've been working on my poster and it's pretty much done which is nice because it's one less thing to worry about. I can't believe summer is almost done, ah!
Today is a short day for me so I'm super happy.
Last week has been the same ole same. I still haven't heard from Dr. Ellis (other than her checking in!) so I don't have any corrections I can make for my educator guides. Taylor and I did get an email from Amanda though and wants us to meet up with the camp people doing Sue and Meg to collaborate some ideas (Max and Callum I believe that's you?) We finished painting sharks teeth last week so the activity testing will be ready to go this week! My guess would be Thursday but Taylor isn't in today so we have yet to discuss it.
I don't really have much else. I've been working on my poster and it's pretty much done which is nice because it's one less thing to worry about. I can't believe summer is almost done, ah!
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| The finished product of "shark teeth" painting. |
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| The posters that Taylor created BY HAND for testing the activities. |
Monday, July 7, 2014
Week 9 Looking Fine
Happy Monday!
This past week I didn't really do much. I was only in the office for 3 days because I went to Disney/Universal! However Taylor and I finally got to do something fun, we painted "shark teeth". Now we didn't paint ACTUAL shark teeth, we painted plaster casts of teeth so that they looked real. It was a lot of fun and made time go by much faster than sitting in front of a computer. We get to do it again on Wednesday so I'm happy about that!
Now some people may be wondering why we need these teeth. Well when Taylor and I test our activities, which should be the end of this week and next (hopefully), she will be using the teeth for a measuring and ratio activity. It's pretty cool, and the activity I'm testing will be really fun too (I'll write about it next week) so if you're in the museum be sure to come check us out!
I'm very excited for the planetarium on Friday. My boyf will be visiting me this weekend so he'll be there too. You can't miss him, he's 7 ft. tall, haha. That's about all, see you Wednesday!
This past week I didn't really do much. I was only in the office for 3 days because I went to Disney/Universal! However Taylor and I finally got to do something fun, we painted "shark teeth". Now we didn't paint ACTUAL shark teeth, we painted plaster casts of teeth so that they looked real. It was a lot of fun and made time go by much faster than sitting in front of a computer. We get to do it again on Wednesday so I'm happy about that!
Now some people may be wondering why we need these teeth. Well when Taylor and I test our activities, which should be the end of this week and next (hopefully), she will be using the teeth for a measuring and ratio activity. It's pretty cool, and the activity I'm testing will be really fun too (I'll write about it next week) so if you're in the museum be sure to come check us out!
I'm very excited for the planetarium on Friday. My boyf will be visiting me this weekend so he'll be there too. You can't miss him, he's 7 ft. tall, haha. That's about all, see you Wednesday!
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