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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}Jennie1(1).jpg" style="width: 250px; height: 188px; float: right;" />When I found out that I was going to have to complete a project as part of the environmental education internship, I thought it was going to be this big, long, report and I honestly didn&rsquo;t know if I could pick a topic and complete it in four weeks with all of my other responsibilities.&nbsp; It turned out that the general guidelines for the project were that we (the interns) were to find a part of the program that we could improve or could make easier for future interns.&nbsp; That sounded like a much more feasible project to accomplish and not just a big report.&nbsp; So a little while later when we were going over the mammal study that we would be teaching to the 1<sup>st</sup> graders, Paul pointed out that someone&rsquo;s intern project could be redoing an old, beat up habitat poster with movable mammal pictures.&nbsp; This poor poster was on its last leg and while it and the animals were beautifully hand drawn, it needed to be retired.&nbsp; I like to draw so I thought it would be fun to draw a new poster but when someone mentioned making the poster more of a flannel graph, I thought that was a perfect idea and I knew what my project would be.&nbsp; I was going to make a habitat poster, complete with movable animals, all out of felt.&nbsp;</p>
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	It was really cool starting with just a project idea, then going through all of the preliminary work of sketching, cutting, and gluing, and then completing a finished product that will be very useful in the future.&nbsp; Working on the poster was actually quite relaxing and it was immensely satisfying to see the finished product after all the work that was put into making it.&nbsp; I could not have been more pleased with the finished product. &nbsp;</p>
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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}Jennie Animals.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 287px;" /></p>
