As my project in Education I'm designing a pop-up. A pop-up, in Education, is like a little interactive game that you put on a cart and bring out to the main floor to engage with guests. So far, I have a solid idea for the pop-up. I'm doing a game where you match up different plants and animals to habitats (chaparral, riparian, coastal sage brush, etc) in San Diego. I'm getting the materials this week and am putting it together next week. The concept of a pop-up is simple. It's a short interaction with the museum guests. However, designing is more complicated than I thought it'd be. I can only imagine how hard it is to develop a lesson plan, much less a semester's curriculum or a camp.
Well, I've left Education for the week and am in Paleontology. Today, I was cleaning clam and oyster fossils for their comparative collection.
As my project in Education I'm designing a pop-up. A pop-up, in Education, is like a little interactive game that you put on a cart and bring out to the main floor to engage with guests. So far, I have a solid idea for the pop-up. I'm doing a game where you match up different plants and animals to habitats (chaparral, riparian, coastal sage brush, etc) in San Diego. I'm getting the materials this week and am putting it together next week. The concept of a pop-up is simple. It's a short interaction with the museum guests. However, designing is more complicated than I thought it'd be. I can only imagine how hard it is to develop a lesson plan, much less a semester's curriculum or a camp.
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Carissa Kiprotich
1/24/2017 09:34:09 am
This gives me chills: cleaning fossils? Wow, I love that you are getting this experience and that you were so motivated to do something of such importance and interest to you. If I haven't said it enough yet, I'm proud of you and the work that you're doing! Also, I love the picture of you today!
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Internship BlogI interned at The San Diego Natural History Museum for the month of January. I worked there full time for four and a half weeks. I bounced between departments. Week .5 was in Education, Week 1 was in Entomology, Week 2 was Education, Week 3 was Paleontology, and Week 4 was Education. Archives
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