Some Pictures From My Learning Experience

Here are a few pictures from my experience at VIMS this summer.


VIMS, as seen from the York River










Small crab viewed through microscope on student science cruise









Polychaete viewed through microscope also on student science cruise









Box core sampling tool on student science cruise











Loading up the truck on our way to my study site on the Patuxent










My mentor, Dr. Rochelle Seitz, getting a core sample at one of our sites on the Patuxent River










Using a push core at one of the Patuxent River study sites











Sorting through a suction sample at the study site

It's been a while...

I haven't posted in a while so I guess I'll give a run down of my senior project thus far and where it's going.

The learning experience, of course, is done and out of the way. Which means what's left is the application, the written doc, and the final presentation.

For my application I have a two part-er. First, I will go and teach Mr. Hutton's 7th grade class about Marine Invertebrates. I have a book of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's curriculum and am about to start drafting my lesson plan. Something that I think would be great to do is to have some Invertebrate examples for the kids to see while I teach. Ideally, I could set up a mini-ecosystem with the animals living in something similar to their natural environment and base my lessons around that.

Then, it's the fun part. I will go with the class with them on their trip to Port Isabel. While on the trip, I will be able to show them the habitat of the inverts and go further into why the conservation and care of these animals is so important.

The written doc will be my finalized lesson plan, and my presentation... well I still have some work to do there. But, again if I could have some live samples, that would be pretty great.