Summer Internship Blog

 For this week of the internship, the kids learned about various forms of art. To do this, the kids performed various arts and crafts alongside a field trip to the Crayola Experience at the Florida Mall. Origami Jumping Frog       When the kids performed art activities, the focus was to highlight            how art is more than just coloring with crayons or painting with              brushes. For instance, we taught the kids about how to make origami    frogs that are capable of jumping. We also showed the kids designs         are put onto fabric. The kids got to practice screen printing onto                  canvas bags they got to keep. Lastly, the activity I think the kids were    challenged by the most is painting in unconventional ways. Whether         it was dragging st...

 This week had a few surprise guests alongside some more experience around teaching kids. Aside from that, this week featured many of the same setups familiar to those who have been keeping up with the blog posts here. Pepper the Possum Our guests featured an archeologist and a visit from the Oakland Nature Preserve. In the archeological lesson, the kids learned about the difficulties of excavating artifacts by trying to carve chocolate chips out of chocolate chip cookies without breaking the cookie too much. The kids also got to look and learn about where archeologists like to look for potential artifacts. The Oakland visitor had a very similar visit to a previous guest. She brought 4 animals for the kids learn about such as a tiger salamander, corn snake, and box turtle. The highlight for the kids was Pepper the Possum. She serves as an ambassador for wild animals taken as pets by people. The possum is believed to have been taken as a baby from the wild. After a year though, the ...

Helmeted Guineafowl at Bill Frederick Park Given the 4th of July break, I'll condense the past two weeks into one blog post. Both of these past weeks had field trips, but I really just served as a chaperone for them. One field trip saw us go to Bill Frederick Park while another had the Florida Film Academy visit the History Center. Both of these field trips had educators from the park and the academy handle the lessons, so we simply watched the kids and made sure they behaved.  Animal Bones (Bear and Cow Skull along with Deer Antler) The class activities for these past two were somewhat similar to previous weeks if you have been reading the blogposts. Both weeks had the kids visit one of the galleries at the history center.  One week had them explore the pioneer gallery and another had them handling some animal bones as a part of an animal focused week. I spent the animal week helping the kids measure their punching power with a sparring tool and then escorting them to Frederi...