Welcome to my blog for the Kenan Fellows program. (Here are some other Kenan Fellows Program Blogs). I’m excited to get started – I’ll be working with Drs. Roland Kays and Stephanie Schuttler on the Students Discover: eMammal Camera Trap Stakeout project through the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. I’m also excited to be teaming up with some fantastic science educators in other parts of the state: Dayson Pasion and Kelsie Armentrout.

Here’s my teaching website and you can find out a little more about me here.

I’m stoked to be working on this particular project because its important to understand the animals we share our environment with. This concept is one of the FIVE reasons I give my students each year in response to the question: Why study Science? Students at my school are always surprised to discover the diversity of the animal life in the woods around our homes. My favorite is the black bear, and I can only hope we “trap” one with our cameras this next year.

That’s it for now, but I leave you with two videos:

First – story on CNN Student News from April 29th about wildlife migration patterns in former West Germany and Czechoslovakia, now Germany and the Czech Republic, since the fall of communism. (Story at 6:43)

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/education/2014/04/28/orig-sn-0429.cnn.html

Lastly, a little Black Eyed Peas:

http://youtu.be/IKqV7DB8Iwg

<as soon as I figure out how to embed them I’ll get to it. For now you’ll have to follow the links I guess>