It’s been a slow couple of weeks. Two weeks ago I finished up for the most part being with the high school. The only thing left to do with them is to take them out to the island and to get them to really see what it’s like to be out doing research. Last week … Continue reading Getting close to the end →
Well I went to the Channel Islands High School and I gave them the last survey. It was good I was a little sad because I won’t be seeing them until April when we go to Santa Rosa. I have also just started to get all of my data into one place where I can … Continue reading Last Survey and data stats →
Well this Friday I did my first lesson of Unit 3. What I thought about was why long-term research is done and why it is so important as well as talked about how the protocol for looking at mole/sand crabs will be going. It went very well. The second class went better than the first … Continue reading First lesson →
One thing that I just realized is that I haven’t explained what my capstone project is. I am sure that I gave out a link or two so those people will know what I am posting about but what about people stumble on this by accident. So here is the run down on my project. … Continue reading About the project →
On Wednesday Erika, Cause Chris and I had a very good meeting with our contacts in the LiMPETS program whose names are Jessie Altstatt and Julie Bursek. It was a really good and productive meeting. Since they have been working on a number of changes on the program. The changes as far as I can … Continue reading Meeting →
Just starting to sort of look at the best way to teach my high school kids about the environment. I never really realized how many different ways people can teach. It’s a little insane. It all just depends on what you are teaching, what kind best suits you and which one reaches the majority of the … Continue reading Getting Started →
Yesterday (12/05/15) I went to FJ Middle School and I listened to their presentations. They had the same information and the same groups as the high school but to recap the groups were endangered species, macroinverts, water chemistry, surface water runoff and invasive species. The middle schoolers are for sure more into this program that … Continue reading This week →
Last week I went to Channel Islands High School to listen to them give mini presentations in groups. Each group presented on one of the following, an endangered species, surface runoff, water chemistry, macroinvertebrates or invasive species. All of these had specific examples that were related to the Santa Clarita watershed. In the course of a … Continue reading Last week →
So far everything is going well. The high school students don’t appear to be that interested in all of this. I am very much hoping that this will change as the year continues on. Most of the students seem to be nice enough and I hope that it will be fun for them to learn … Continue reading Update →
Well I hope that this works and that this is fun!
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