This week is the last week of my internship! It’s very sad, as I grew to really love the position and the people that I got to know because of it. The time flew by incredibly quickly. (A side note: I can’t believe the semester starts so soon, as well!) For my last week at the museum, I have been helping out\/have plans to help out with a specific summer camp that one of my supervisors are running. It’s a science-based camp and the activities are run from a National Geographic activity box. The reason that I was specifically recruited is because of my specialized knowledge in rocks and minerals, and the box is partially focused towards that. One of the activities is to make your own crystals by mixing a few things together and letting it sit all week. (The kids will get them back on Friday!) Another activity they did was excavating their own minerals, such as pyrite (fool’s gold) and types of quartz, most commonly rose quartz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other activities the camp got up to included making volcanos! I’m not quite sure how the volcanos are meant to explode as that’s happening later in the week, but the kids were able to mix their own plaster and scoop it into a mold. The concoction was let out of the mold after thirty minutes and is not sitting to dry for a few days. The reason we did these two activities the first day is because they’re the ones that need more than one day to complete. Later in the week, they’ll be able to paint their volcanoes and explode them, as well as see how their crystals turned out. While I didn’t help out in the afternoon class today, I popped into the morning class which was about comics where the kids are spending the week learning how a multi act story is formed and then making it into a comic book that they’ll draw themselves throughout the week. It was still a lot of fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week is the last week of my internship! It’s very sad, as I grew to really love the position and the people that I got to know because of it. The time flew by incredibly quickly. (A side note: I can’t believe the semester starts so soon, as well!) For my last week at … Continue reading Helping Out With Summer Camp<\/span>