Backlog: Jan 19

January 19, 2011

Wednesday

So today at work I got to see a presentation of wildlife photography from the various Wilderness areas around Clark County. I also got to participate in a few of the activities that are facilitated to school kids around the county: dots on the wall, picture sort, and word pyramid. Dots on the wall consisted of 6 posters hung on the wall, each with a statement like ‘I can state 3 reasons Wilderness is important’ or ‘I believe Wilderness is worth protecting.’ Each participant gets 6 stickers and places his/her stickers on a continuum under the statement of agree to disagree. Picture sort had a series of pictures and the group was asked to place them into two categories Wilderness and non Wilderness. Word Pyramid: each participant received a sheet of paper with a pyramid on it, and a set of small pieces of paper, each having a word on it like fresh air or hunting and fishing. The participants were asked to place the more important pieces at the top of the pyramid and the less so farther down the pyramid.

We then went through an entire lecture on interpretation techniques, and even role played some methods for dealing with problem kids.

Then we spent a long time working on the menu for next week’s hike.

I had a beer, sorry this is blunt. I’m tired and don’t feel like writing.