Really have very little to post this week, as I went in to work Monday for a couple of hours but took today off. I had to accept a scholarship this morning (yay!) and then finish unpacking from last week, finish my director duties for the Honors Camp this weekend, and of course catch up on sleep!
Basically Dr. Ellis is going to be out of town for about 3 weeks, so I believe the rest of this week is just going to be getting everything lined up so that we have stuff to complete the entire time. Shouldn't be anything too hard, but glad to be back!
See you all in class!
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Monday, June 16, 2014
Week 6: ONE DAY WEEK!
Hey guys!
I know I said I'd post PART 2 of our Jax visit and answer the big question: why is there a deer on the ceiling? Unfortunately, this will have to wait, as I have temporarily lost the SD card that those pictures were on (aka I'm too lazy to post it this week).
I have finished ALL of my guides, except the 6-8 grade guide, but that's halfway done, so I'm getting excited about the other jobs Dr. Ellis will have me do, other than revisions. For example, today I had to zoom some instructions for a Discovery Room game on the copier, so that was fun, but today is the only day that I work, because tomorrow I'm getting ready to go to UNF for a RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) camp, where we each have a group of high school students from all over Florida sponsored by Rotary Clubs to go to presentations and do community service with. It's all about teaching leadership and is my fifth year being involved with it. I'm pretty excited about this, as it lasts from this Wednesday to Sunday.
So, that's all I have for an extremely short week. I'll miss you guys in class!
Taylor Whitley
Intern at FLMNH
License to Math
I know I said I'd post PART 2 of our Jax visit and answer the big question: why is there a deer on the ceiling? Unfortunately, this will have to wait, as I have temporarily lost the SD card that those pictures were on (aka I'm too lazy to post it this week).
I have finished ALL of my guides, except the 6-8 grade guide, but that's halfway done, so I'm getting excited about the other jobs Dr. Ellis will have me do, other than revisions. For example, today I had to zoom some instructions for a Discovery Room game on the copier, so that was fun, but today is the only day that I work, because tomorrow I'm getting ready to go to UNF for a RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) camp, where we each have a group of high school students from all over Florida sponsored by Rotary Clubs to go to presentations and do community service with. It's all about teaching leadership and is my fifth year being involved with it. I'm pretty excited about this, as it lasts from this Wednesday to Sunday.
So, that's all I have for an extremely short week. I'll miss you guys in class!
Taylor Whitley
Intern at FLMNH
License to Math
Monday, June 9, 2014
Week 5: FIELD TRIP....get excited! (PART 1)
Ahoy!
That's it for now! See y'all in class!
Taylor
Intern, FLMNH
License to Math
All you need to know about this week is that we went to Jacksonville today. Sure, many of you may be thinkig, "gee whiz, it's only a city." For those of you that think this you really don't understand. Our day generally starts with walking to our office, turning on the computer, and typing the entire time, only stopping for lunch. In other words, it gets dull. So a trip OUT of the office on a BEAUTIFUL day like today was great.
Why did we go today? It doesn't matter--WE WENT. Just kidding, it matters. Ashleigh, Dr. Ellis, Ms. Dale, and I drove in a car to the Museum of Science and History (MOSH, see below) in Jacksonville to check out the Megalodon Exhibit, which is coming to our museum this fall. This is the same exhibit I'm writing my guides on, so it was super helpful to see it in person.
Here are a few highlights from the trip. Keep in mind that this is only part 1....part 2 comes next week.
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| This is the beginning of the exhibit...what you see "inside" the Megalodon. Those random people standing inside of it? They're not random, they're from the FLMNH exhibit team. |
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| This is some of the "math" that I can use for the educator and docent guides: the correlation between the size of the shark tooth and the length of the shark. |
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| SHARK JAWS |
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| This is a jacket that a minor actor donated to the exhibit for the pop culture section of the exhibit. |
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| I was "measuring up" against the length of different sharks. |
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| This is a truly terrifying shark. |
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| There were even dig boxes where kids could find Megalodon teeth...I found one! |
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| Sneak peek from PART 2 next week....maybe I'll answer the question: why is there a deer on the ceiling? |
Taylor
Intern, FLMNH
License to Math
Monday, June 2, 2014
Week 4: Showing the Newbie Around
Hello all!
This week was slightly more interesting than last week, because of a school field trip and taking Ashleigh around the museum.
For the school trip, Ashleigh and I traveled to Stephen Foster Elementary to teach two classes of third and fourth graders about the Fossil Hall at FLMNH. They visited there a few weeks ago, but we got to give them a post-lesson, teaching them about measuring animals and so much more! The feedback was the worst out of all of our visits, which may be attributed to the gap between the visit to the museum and the classroom visit. Also, the second teacher held the teaching ideal that "if you yell it, they will respond." Unfortunately, no such luck on her part. Other than the kids walking around the classroom randomly, the lesson went well, and they were very interested in the otter (dead and stuffed, just to be clear) that we brought and seemed to retain a lot of information they learned. That was the last classroom visit that we have to do this summer, so whoot whoot!
Then, today Dr. Ellis and I took Ashleigh around the museum to see all of the exciting things and meet exciting people. We did have the pleasure of seeing Deanna (spreading her joy), Beth, Brooke, and Callum in the classroom, so that was cool. Then we saw Deanna on her way off work, and just a word of advice, don't get between her and the door! (Just kidding, Deanna, but not really). We got to introduce Ashleigh to the Dian(n)e's (see picture below), Darci, and Betty, as well as walk around the entire museum so that was a nice change of scenery.
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Some good news is that we will probably be visiting the Megalodon traveling exhibit in Jacksonville sometime next week (road trip!) so I'll be sure to post lots of pics about it!
Until next time!
Taylor
Intern, FLMNH
License to Math
This week was slightly more interesting than last week, because of a school field trip and taking Ashleigh around the museum.
For the school trip, Ashleigh and I traveled to Stephen Foster Elementary to teach two classes of third and fourth graders about the Fossil Hall at FLMNH. They visited there a few weeks ago, but we got to give them a post-lesson, teaching them about measuring animals and so much more! The feedback was the worst out of all of our visits, which may be attributed to the gap between the visit to the museum and the classroom visit. Also, the second teacher held the teaching ideal that "if you yell it, they will respond." Unfortunately, no such luck on her part. Other than the kids walking around the classroom randomly, the lesson went well, and they were very interested in the otter (dead and stuffed, just to be clear) that we brought and seemed to retain a lot of information they learned. That was the last classroom visit that we have to do this summer, so whoot whoot!
Then, today Dr. Ellis and I took Ashleigh around the museum to see all of the exciting things and meet exciting people. We did have the pleasure of seeing Deanna (spreading her joy), Beth, Brooke, and Callum in the classroom, so that was cool. Then we saw Deanna on her way off work, and just a word of advice, don't get between her and the door! (Just kidding, Deanna, but not really). We got to introduce Ashleigh to the Dian(n)e's (see picture below), Darci, and Betty, as well as walk around the entire museum so that was a nice change of scenery.
Some good news is that we will probably be visiting the Megalodon traveling exhibit in Jacksonville sometime next week (road trip!) so I'll be sure to post lots of pics about it!
Until next time!
Taylor
Intern, FLMNH
License to Math
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