Hello everyone! My name is Kristin Crockett. I am a 21-year-old senior at Penn State University. I currently live in State College off campus over in Toftrees apartments. I grew up in Doylestown, PA, which is a small suburban town about in hour and a half north east of Philadelphia. I am studying early childhood education and I am currently in my pre student teaching semester with only one more semester to go! Once I graduate in December 2016, I will be certified to teach pre-kindergarten through fourth grade. I hope to become a first or second grade teacher either close to my hometown or down south in either South Carolina or Georgia! In my free time, I love traveling, crafting, doing outdoorsy activities and of course watching Netflix. I am taking this course to meet a Geography requirement that I need to graduate, and I am hoping to expand my knowledge of Geography and learn information that will be able to use when I teach my students!
As I went through Module 1, the issue that stuck out to me the most was the social science perspectives section. As the module states, humans have a very large impact on our environment. We are changing the earth’s surface and atmosphere, diminishing tons of our natural resources, changing the climate, and causing certain species to go extinct. This is where the term we learned “sustainability” comes into play. We must learn to understand how our activities can exist without ruining all of our natural resources; we must come up with alternatives. This topic is interesting to me because I believe it’s extremely important to preserve the environment for my future generations of students. I also would love to use this topic to come up with fun environmental projects that I can use with my students.
Hi Kristina,
I am also an Early Childhood Education major! I hope pre student teaching is going well for you. I am excited to do that next semester. I also talked about sustainability in my blog. I think it is so important to understand the impact we have on our environment. As future teachers, it will be very important for us to incorporate our knowledge of the environment into the classroom, so I really appreciate that you are already starting to build lessons and activities surrounding those issues. The link to my blog is: https://wp.me/p3RCAy-aU3
Hi! My name is Jessica and here’s my blog post: http://geog030.dutton.psu.edu/2016/01/15/jessica-moritz-module-1/. I also talked about how humans can impact the environment around us. It’s sad to think that because of our actions, animals are becoming extinct and future generations are going to miss out seeing certain species. My roommate is also an early childhood education major and she just did a project with her kids about the Bald Eagle and how they are dying out because of the changes we have made to the environment. I hope that people learn more about our actions so kids won’t just have to see pictures of extinct animals and can actually see them in person!