Meeting the kiddos:

Alyson and I were able to go help with the Maumelle Middle School EAST kids today. We are currently helping them on a poster/video presentation for the EAST conference in two weeks as well as a powerpoint presentation for the city of Maumelle (I believe). In the beginning we hashed out what things needed to be done now, and what needed to be put off until after the conference. The kids know what they are doing data wise, but are unclear as to WHY they are doing these things. I was able to talk to the kids about the importance of bar graphs, standard error, and why dissolved oxygen is so important in a wetland. Looking at their raw data, I felt that it would be best if we went out once or twice more with the kids and collected readings with them. It is very skewed in some places, and then uniform in others. We talked to Candy about splitting the kids up when we go back on Tuesday and taking a few out to sample while the rest work on the project.

Below is what we sketched out for the kids.

• My (VERY ROUGH) explanation of DO
• Poster setup for conference
• What they need to work on for next time/ data analysis