Group Scat Track Fever is feeling fantastic! Tired, but fantastic! Today we made some minor adjustments to our journal and we completed our powerpoint. As usual, our teamwork was terrific and we each took different sections of strength and then pulled it all together into a completed powerpoint.
We finished developing our activity for our presentation. Hopefully it will be fun and educational for everybody else to have the opportunity to try making a cast, and then think about what animal print they have. It is an activity that could easily be used in any educational setting.
Speaking of that, it was very helpful to consider how to use tracking and our research in general in the classroom. Tracking is very exciting for students and it's easier to do than trying to find actual animals in the wild. Also, it was exciting and hopeful to realize that tracking could be tied to state standards. There is definitely room for environmental education in the traditional classroom!
We really do feel like the data we collected, specifically the mammals in multiple habitats and direction of travel, demonstrates that all three habitats are important to a multitude of creatures. Hopefully individuals will realize this and work to conserve these precious spaces.
It has been a joy working together and learning more about the land we share with these wild creatures.
Scat Track Fever is signing off!
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