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[|Amy Agnew] I am 20 years of age and am studying at Murdoch University, Early Childhood and Primary Education. I child I used to change what I wanted in my future and the sort of career path I wanted to take. Ideas of careers that I wanted involved veterinary nurse, forensic science, nursing, psychology... but it always seemed to come back to teaching. I have always enjoyed helping at sporting events, school disco's, assemblies, singing classes and school excursions. Throughout my school life I remember having some really amazing teachers that kept me wanting to learn more and challenged me to what I could do. Even though my mind changed on what I wanted from life and what I wanted to pursue, my realisation happened when I came to University. It came most clear to me while I was discussing what I was going to be doing as a career and why, to someone I knew and I have never felt the way I did before, I was certain. Now I think the main reasons why I want to become a teacher is, for the chance to help educate the younger generation and challenge them as an educator to push forward and eventually take that journey or pathway into their future.

I have always had an interest in life, the cycle and all the other elements that make things what they are. I remember in Year 7 we were learning about life cycles and eco-systems, my teacher at the time got us to collect 2 litre plastic bottles to help make our own little eco-systems. We would cut the bottles down and then connect them to one another. We would place in different environments for the insects and any small animals we were going to get. In the class we had a range of little creatures; we had tadpoles, butterflies, slaters, caterpillars, worms and spiders. We didn't get to keep them for very long but at the end of it we learnt about each insect/animal, what they were, their habitats and what they ate.

Another time was while I was in High School; the science teacher had a small greenhouse put up with large tubs inside and small garden beds. The garden beds were made by the high school students and the primary students planted the gardens. The large tubs were filled with water and had fish and yabbies. The idea of having this at the school was to show the children about caring for animals, like feeding the fish and caring for the plants in the garden beds.

[|Breanna Jones] My name is Breanna Jones and I'm still 17, 18 soon: D. I am studying at Murdoch University, for Early Childhood and Primary teaching degree. I want to teach kindergarten and pre primary because I love that age group. I met my two favourite teachers in high school, from year ten onwards. And they are the teachers which inspired me to follow my dreams. Because of the influence they have had on my life, I realized the impact that teachers have and I have always wanted to impact someone’s life so that is why I am becoming a teacher. I am a Christian and love going to my church and youth group. I have enjoyed the transition from high school into university and I am enjoying making new friends.

At first regarding our topic I was like gross, but now after looking at some resources it had proven to be interesting. This sort of things reminds me of a camp I participated on in year 12. It was a biology camp and we went into the wellington forest. It was really cool because we got to learn about the different animals and the "bush" animals and their life cycles. My job within this assignment is finding resources and making lessons plans.

Tessa Geddes I am currently studying to become an early childhood and Primary Teacher. I have wanted to become a teacher, since grade 3 due to my teacher. She was fun and energetic and taught us in authentic ways that allowed for us to experience tasks rather just do them. The life cycle and anything to do with science had always been of great interest to me in my schooling years, since it was so hands on. I remember when we got the opportunity to have tadpoles in our classroom. It was enjoyable to see life transforming in front of your very eyes. We also had silk worms, but they did not swim around like tadpoles.

I enjoyed participating in the making of this wiki, because it allowed me to see how much information and resources are truly out there. One idea may set a new teacher off on the right path, to making tasks in school more authentic instead of mundane. Once I got past the initial shock of trying something new! I was able to use the program with ease. This was due to my University tutor, showing me how to work certain parts of the site and get me, heading in the right direction. I allowed myself to make errors again and again, before finding a way to fix them or understand them. I could add pictures, change text style and colour, along with making and adding my own network bar of links to the other pages in my group’s wiki.

I found that working with a group, creating this site was sometimes hard since we had so many other assignments due at the same time. Along with trying to create time when we all had different timetables. A part from that, I enjoyed working with my group.