Anyone who has talked to me for more than 10 minutes about Kenan could tell you that I was very hesitant to accept my fellowship.  I was so worried about writing curriculum (something I hadn’t done before), and how much work I would have to do on top of teaching.  I could not be happier with deciding to jump in with both feet!  This experience has been one of the best in my life, professionally and personally.  I was lucky enough to have an amazing mentor and colleagues to work with that made writing lessons fun!  I know our Shark Teeth group is very happy and proud of our lessons and they were a blast to implement in the classroom.

I was a little worried to see how our lessons would scale to outside of North Carolina.  Any teacher in North Carolina could easily complete our lessons by ordering the sediment and shipping their data and teeth back to Bucky at the museum.  What we as a group struggled with was what to do with teachers OUTSIDE of North Carolina.  We met as a team during a Scale Research day at the Friday Institute and we were able to brainstorm how we could scale our lessons to reach more teachers.  The teachers could have students measure and analyze pictures of teeth and send the measurement data back to the museum.  I would love to see my lessons be used all over the country and with some more modifications and added relevance to other continents, I believe it could be used all over the world!

Go big or go home! 🙂