Week 10

This week things have been coming together really nicely. I am getting pretty far along on my project. Dr. Daniels, the butterfly expert at the museum got back to me with a guest speaker to contact, and I finally thought of a great activity for the Girl Scouts to do. I'm going to have them look at phylogenetic trees, which are basically how scientists look at behavioral, physical, and today, mostly genetic data and see how different species are related to each other, and how they diverge from each other. Obviously I simplified the concept a bit for the Scouts but I'm really really happy with the activity. Also I created all of the activity from scratch, and made a bunch of graphics for the activity which was really cool. 

Yesterday (Monday) I taught camp on Inventions. I taught 3rd and 4th graders which was nice because they are able to read and write. There were a lot of fun activities, like making a bridge with a limited amount of gumdrops and toothpicks, and trying to make a chair to hold a human out of just newspaper and tape (spoiler alert: none of their chairs held any of them). For the rest of the week, I'm hoping to finish up my project completely.