As someone who is new to environmental education (pre-school to middle
school) this has been extremely helpful, and I would love to hear what
others have to say.
My two cents is to divert their attention from individual goals (we picked
radishes and each kid wanted to have the BIGGEST radish - it
Jacquelyn,
Ditto what Kyle said. The SCA is a good place to start (at one point, I saw
positions working for the Navy related to marine resources among others). I
completed 3 stints with them after undergrad.
Another good organization is the American Conservation Experience (ACE).
They have an am
Hi,
A couple of brief thoughts:
Enthusiasm and getting kids to notice and observe and then remember seem to
be the keys in many successful programs.
Getting them to use their physical bodies is also very helpful-- move the
way an animal moves, or have them stand in different arrangements to
underst
AIBS has just released the application for the 2016 Emerging Public
Policy Leadership Award. The award recognizes graduate students in
the biological sciences who have demonstrated initiative and
leadership in science policy.
Award recipients receive an expense-paid trip to Washington, DC to
Jacquelyn -
You might have better luck on the TAMU job boards. Lots of jobs for wildlife
technicians. If you don't have a graduate degree, that's sort of where you
start. http://wfscjobs.tamu.edu/job-board/
I did a stint in the student conservation association after getting my BSc.
Lots of
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Internship
Program (GRIP) provides NSF graduate fellows with internship
opportunities for professional development and network expansion at
federal facilities. This is a great way to add an applied research
component to a dissertation/thes
Please follow the link for a detailed description of the job and how to
apply: http://wfscjobs.tamu.edu/jobs/research-assistant-bats-texas/
If you have any questions, please email me at melissa.meierho...@ag.tamu.edu
Melissa Meierhofer, M.S.
Research Associate
Texas A&M Institute of Renewable
PhD in evolutionary ecology at the University of Florida (reposting).
The Lucky lab at UF is recruiting graduate students for Fall 2016. The
general focus of the position will be on the impact of native and exotic ant
biodiversity on ecosystems. Students interested in joining the lab will have
*CLUSTER HIRE IN LIMNOLOGY*
Bowling Green State University is pleased to announce a cluster hire in the
area of environmental problems of watersheds in our Department of
Biological Sciences and School of Earth, Environment, and Society (SEES).
The first two positions in this cluster hire are a bio
I used to do extension type teaching at an aquarium.
At five years some students know a little more than you expect, but others
will understand little.
It is usually best to emphasize very very basic stuff.
For example, collecting leaves off the ground, then placing the leaves
behind a piece of pa
The Department of Forest Ecology and Management
(http://www.slu.se/en/departments/forest-ecology-management/)
conducts research and education in both basic and
applied science in the areas of Vegetation
Ecology, Soil Science and Forest Management. The
major research focus is on the boreal lan
Dear friends, I am a University teacher and education coordinator in Brasil and our Departament is testing a new Biology curriculum with courses like teaching ecology, botany, zoology, microbiology. The idea is to develop methods to teach these areas in public secondary schools but now I was invite
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