As soon as I heard about Snake Awareness Day, I contacted my school supervisor about doing a presentation for the school. At first he thought it was a great idea and told me about how he wanted me to talk about northern pine snakes, our local endangered species. But as much as I love pine snakes, our students already know enough about them, because they and diamondback terrapins are kind of our school's unofficial mascots. The environmental classes talk about them regularly.

So I emailed him back and said I'd rather talk on a broader scale, covering things like snake myths, how to ID/handle wild snakes, responsible ownership, and maybe some legislation, things like that. I still want to include a few slides on pine snakes, but that doesn't really get the message across that I want to convey. He didn't seem too thrilled I wasn't doing a 20+ min presentation on a single species, but he said that if I send him a detailed plan of what I actually want to talk about, he'd review it and let me know.

So now that there's been an official date released, I'm working on putting that together. But I realized I probably haven't covered enough.

So what other topics do you think I should include?