Getting things done:

Today Ali and I went to talk to the 8^th graders at Maumelle Middle. I think we made some good progress but there is still a lot to do before their conference. We started the day by giving each of the kids a topic that they will be responsible for. The boys are going to look at 4 weeks of camera data which includes 5 pictures per-day (9-3). The three girls are going to split dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity, and temperature. Then I took two sheets of paper and one for the conference, and one for their meeting and we broke down what needed to be done for both. For the conference they need to establish a goal/objective, write a 6 sentence summary, and change their movie trailer to a video so they can slow it down and add more substance. They are supposed to have an objective and rough draft of their paper ready for us next Tuesday. For the meeting they are each going to cover their topic in a power point. As a group they will talk about their goal and what their hopes are.  After we nailed this stuff down the boys started looking at the pictures, Ali helped scout with excel and graphs and I sat with the other two girls and we talked about their data and things they had questions about. I think we got a lot accomplished today but there is still so much to do. They are hoping that we will go out to their sample site and collect another turbidity and DO with them, also they want to get some picture of us working with them. Next week since there are more of us going I feel like it might be a good idea for us to divide and concur but I am willing to do what Dr. Entrekin thinks is best. I was thinking a group could go out with them and take the samples and a group can help them with going over their summary for the conference.