- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
