My team, also known as Team Dirt, consists of a sixth grade and eighth grade science teacher, and a seventh grade math teacher. One  of the largest obstacles to writing curriculum is trying to incorporate what we are learning within everyone’s curriculum. Another challenge includes the fact that we are still conducting are experiment as I write this blog. Our project is revolutionary and we do not yet know the outcome. As a result, we have decided to write one lesson plan that has several components. We would like to include social studies, language arts, math, and science.

Since our project will continue well past this week, we will be constantly communicating with our mentors. We have to send soil samples to the museum for analysis. We will also have an opportunity to communicate via the distance education class with our mentors. This is an excellent way to help our students to see that they are apart of an actual science experiment. On Friday, we had several students from the Governor Morehead School visit our lab. These students were rising seniors and were excited to learn about the projects that were being conducted in our laboratory. We also described our soil project and they all agreed that they would have enjoyed participating in a Citizen Science activity in high school.