Yes Teen compares her summer camp experience as a child to those she teaches.
By Jasmin Woods
For the St. Louis American
My name is Jasmin Woods and I am on staff for the Youth Exploring Science Program at the St. Louis Science Center.
After being in the program for two years, I now belong to the City Science component.
In City Science, we teach hands-on activities that are educational, and -because they are so much fun – keep the children engaged.
Our services are provided to community groups from all over the St. Louis area.
An example of the types of activities we offer students is called Animal Habitat.
This assignment requires the kids to draw their favorite animal and its habitat on a blank information card. Then on a second information card they draw the animal doing something in its habitat. Once both information cards are taped together on a straw, we tell the children to spin the project constantly and they can actually see the animal moving!
Working for the Science Center makes me reminisce about when I was in Girl Scout camp. At camp we did all types of hands-on activities each day, including creating popsicle stick houses and toothpick structures.
My hands would get really messy with the glue, but I still had as much fun as the children did whenever they come to the Taylor Community Science Resource Center.
Everyday I watch my students laugh and play while they learn something about science that they might have missed in school, or forgotten while on summer vacation.
I enjoy myself at work because I know that the children are having fun and learning.