October 31, 2006

Science Trivia Quest

Dr. Lenny was trying to think about how to motivate people, when the reward system seems to appease those people who sit on their butts. Science has a lot of butt sitting, but i have several summer internships for this coming year that need competent high school students. Sometimes that is as much an oxymoron as military intelligence. This will involve hands on data collection.
Lemme convinced me to start collecting enough trivia about science and math to make a game show of things. I plan to have students competing in tests to demonstrate ability in a competition for these internships. The skill sets all revolve around measurement.

Suggestions of good definitions for matching, short answer questions about who, what and where, true false that use sensible logic for a contradictory answer, or thought provoking essay questions would be greatly appreciated. The activities will include hands on demonstration of field technique.
If you have the skills to be an online natural resources science/math instructor, drop me a line. Redile will attempt to run some land stewardship programs continuing into the future - we hope to have interested students returning during college summers to apply their knowledge with the resident high school youth.

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