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| - Correlate with present school curriculum
- Know who your target audience is
- Decide how many programs you will be able to deliver during the year
- Create a method of notifying teachers about availability and scheduling
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| - Know what you want all students learn as a result of your visit
- Know why it is important for students to learn
- Establish objectives that address district as well as educational goals
- Meet established objectives with every visit
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| - Offer opportunities to learn by listening, seeing, touching, drawing, asking, doing, etc.
- Use more than one method of presenting information
- Offer various types of activities for student responses
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| - Design for the intended audience
- Expect students to do something with the handouts (besides reading it)
- Design for educational value
- Provide materials that are interesting or intriguing to students
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| - Bring live larvae, pupae and adults (if possible)
- Bring equipment - traps, nets, models, etc.
- Us quality slides or other visuals during presentations
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| - “Go with the flow” - something is always going on - prom, assemblies, teacher absences, etc.
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| - Maintain a clean, neat appearance
- Be on time
- Call ahead to reconfirm your appointment
- Double check to make sure you have all of your materials
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| - Have a plan already worked out with the teacher
- Request the teacher stay in the room
- Expect students to pay attention to your carefully planned program
- Stay positive even if a student becomes a problem
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| - Work within the school system’s hierarchy
- Make scientific publications available to teachers and students
- Offer teacher workshops about your program and related topics
- Be a science fair judge
- Offer old, used equipment to schools
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