Having an internship is no joke. Today was a boatload of new
information, expectations, and project ideas. I met the director of DNS, Sally
Shuffield, as well as the current college intern, Rachel. I sat down with Sally
in order to flesh out my project plan: I will be researching possible grants
for DNS and compiling them into a list with short descriptions of basic info
and why I think they would be a good fit. At around the 2 week mark, I will
choose one to which to write a grant request. This encompasses the behind the
scenes aspect of my internship. I also spoke with Rachel today about what my
curriculum plan will look like. It will be a plan for the 6th grade
Children Discovering Nature classroom portion. More to come on that as I
research further.
Finally,
today I started into the program aspect of things. I went and helped Rachel
teach a Nature club meeting to 7 squirmy little kindergarten and 1st
graders. It was hectic, but we managed to teach them a bit about the State
reptile: the western painted turtle (hopefully). And we will be teaching the
same lesson to a different group of kids tomorrow!
Wish me
luck!
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