Internship week 10: part 2

To get additional experience with environmental education, Sarah set up a time for me to volunteer with the 6th grade swamp walk, down in Big Cypress National Preserve. I was to assist as sort of a ranger in training. Basically by helping to keep things under control, and assisting with lectures when it was a subject that I knew more about.
 One teaching issue that I had yet to deal with, was teaching a class with a student who had a disability. Before heading out we were told that a boy in our group had asperger syndrome. But that he was very bright and just needed some extra patience, because he would want to answer all the questions. This was very true, but for the most part he was a pleasure to work with. He just needed to be gently reminded periodically that he needed to wait, so that others could get a chance to answer questions. I think this is a great program and I am definitely considering interning/working with the national parks program so that I can get paid to work with programs like this.