Questions for the Maumelle Middle School 8th Graders

After meeting with the 8th grade class that will be working in the White Oak Bayou, several things became clear. First of all, they already have a lot of data after collecting once a week every week for the past several weeks (I think they said 5 or 6 weeks). They also have tons of photos from one of Scott's cameras (almost all of which have deer in them, all of which seemed to have some visible animals). They also have a video that was amusing regarding their project.

So now comes our first interaction: we need to ask them questions. Not just what we want to know, but what do we think they need to know. It became clear that while they have all of this data, they don't seem to know why. They don't seem to know what purpose it will serve. They also don't seem to know what it is that they are measuring (they were checking the turbidity, but they didn't seem to know what that meant, why it was important, or what the units meant).

So, we need questions for them ASAP (coming from the great procrastinator, that must sound funny), because the sooner they get the questions, the sooner they can start looking for the answers and get back to us for the next step in the process. I believe we hope to check in on them Tuesday of next week to see what they have come up with. So comment your questions, please.