Snail

This semester students were prompted to think about animals that are native to the Fremont area and Ohlone College Campus. The plan was to make animals out of clay and have some portions of them mosaiced. As a class, we discussed various animals and project ideas. Three animals were chosen and students decided which group they wanted to work on: the owl for its wisdom and perceptiveness, the snail for the beauty of small creatures that you only seem to notice when you slow down (and we should all slow down and observe the world) and the steelhead trout which is endangered in Northern California. The evening class joined in on this project with Professor Jennifer Brazelton. One student made a turtle with eggs and a thermometer. His work is about global warming and how it effects the sex of the babies and another student focused on the Ohlone tiger beetle.

I’m not super crazy about group work. I am usually left to do all the work. I have to say that this is far and wide the best collaborative thing I’ve ever worked on. Team Snail had the best teamwork in my opinion even though at the very beginning we knew we didn’t like group work much. We were going to make a bunch of little snails but Katie urged us to work on something large, so we did. From the very beginning we worked together well. We discussed things, we all brought ideas to the table. We all researched snails and we all had ideas.