Okay, I’m going to be honest. I am really struggling with the curriculum writing piece. Here’s why.

One of my very first duties at my externship was to attend a 3 day training on a new biofuels curriculum developed through NC State, Cooperative Extension and 4-H. It is FANTASTIC stuff. It comes complete with 6 different lesson plans designed to lay the foundation for students with no prior knowledge of alternative fuels and turn them into little experts. There are blogs, and news articles, and games, and labs (awesome, awesome labs) and everything a teacher could ask for. It’s been put together by a team of education and industry experts (one of whom is my mentor.

So, how the heck can I compete with that? And why would I want to. We are the first county in the first state with access to this curriculum and it is amazing. So I’m struggling with the idea that all I’m doing is reinventing the wheel. No, not just the wheel. I’m reinventing the shiniest, toughest, biggest, baddest wheel out there.

Even though I struggled through and managed to turn in my (oh, you wouldn’t believe how rough) rough draft, I’m not at all happy with what I’ve created so far. I think instead of reinventing this wheel I need to look at some different wheels. Suggestions would be so appreciated.