Snakes at School

Joanna, sounds like you guys have really thought through this and have a great presentation already!

That so freaking awesome! I was thinking of talking to my old elementary school to do something like that (oddly enough, a christian school as well), except i'd be bringing a few Leo's and my bearded dragon along with my BP's. I hope that you have a lot of fun educating the little ones! Lets us know how it goes!

Thanks Robin! We want to give a good presentation and have it go smoothly so we might get to come back (hoping to do a more indepth morph/genetics presentation to the senior science classes for instance).

Sounds like you have it planned out pretty well.......your incorporating a lot of different subject areas....health, science, social studies...I love interdisciplinary lessons as a student and teacher.

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Originally Posted by Purrrfect9

That so freaking awesome! I was thinking of talking to my old elementary school to do something like that (oddly enough, a christian school as well), except i'd be bringing a few Leo's and my bearded dragon along with my BP's. I hope that you have a lot of fun educating the little ones! Lets us know how it goes!

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I'd love to incorporate lizards into another visit! :)

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Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls

Sounds like you have it planned out pretty well.......your incorporating a lot of different subject areas....health, science, social studies...I love interdisciplinary lessons as a student and teacher.

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Thanks! I love the idea of using the snakes as a teaching tool as well as just introducing people to them. Even with my own 4 kids I've observed things like...

1) My Beth winning a science fair award using some of our rats as a model for eating nutritious food over picking "junk" food.

2) Mikey learning to sit more quietly than he normally would as snakes won't "like me if I'm jumpy".

3) My older son Luke using what he knows about breeding snakes to equate it to a recent biology/genetics course in high school.

4) Teaching the kids to have empathy and understanding subtle cues from a non-verbal animal. It's important I think for today's kids to have to stetch themselves a bit more to understand something alien to the human experience.

5) Patience and respect for boundaries. If nothing else the snakes have reinforced this with my children. You cannot get impatient with a snake and you must respect it's boundaries or in this house....you don't get to handle a snake. :)

That is awesome Jo!! Education is key to the future of our hobby...

Awesome! It's great to introduce young kids to captive snakes and show them that they're harmless if handled properly and aren't that big slimy man-eater than they hear about. Hopefully you and Mikey have inspired some future herpotologists! :)

That is so awesome.
How lucky are those kids :) We never had fun interesting things like that at my school ( of course there wouldn't have been enough space with only one room )
You must tell us all about it when you get back :)

Kodos!

enjoy yourself i have done that every year for my sons show and tell time and the kids are alway scared at first but by the time i leave they all want to hold the snakes or tort. and i always enjoy it so you will too.