Exit Interview

1. What is your essential question, and what are your answers? What is your best answer and why?
• How can a wildlife educator most effectively spread awareness? 
• Answers: Interaction, Current Issues, Reach-Outs
• My best answer is interaction because it's having the experience that makes it so significant. Interacting with an animal can develop a relationship. Having a relationship makes the person care more about the animal and more about the topic. This encourages them to influence others by raising awareness.
2. What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
• Volunteering at my mentor-ship and being involved in the programs has helped me develop my first answer. I think I first based it on myself because I was only interested in the topic, I wasn't concerned for it. Spending time with the animals and the staff members and developing a relationship with the facility has made me care for them. I then started researching interaction and has given me a lot f information about it's importance. 
3. What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
• It was hard for me to research my topic because it is pretty self explanatory. However, once I had help in creating my essential question, I was able to focus my research in finding answers. I started to analyze the things I was doing at my mentor-ship with my mentor and observe the certain techniques he used when teaching the kids about the animals and the environment.
4. What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
• Mentor-ship
• Strife, Susan and Downey, Liam. "Childhood Development ans Access to Nature." ncbi.gov. A New Direction for Environmental Inequality Research. 22 Mar. 2009. Web. 03 Dec. 2015.
• It explain the importance of the next generation and at the nature center I work with children more than I work with adults. Children linked to interaction and reach-outs because they are in need of education.
• "Wildlife Awareness and Value." targetstudy.com. Education, knowledge, and career, N.d. Web. 21 Jan. 2016. https://targetstudy.com/articles/wildlife-awareness-and-value.html
• The purpose of raising awareness is for the environment itself. We must first know why it is is so important and so valuable to us. This influenced current issues.