{"id":3815,"date":"2017-10-10T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2017-10-10T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T18:03:00","slug":"meed-2017-2018-info-for-graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-3815","title":{"rendered":"MEED 2017-2018 Info for Graduate Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The Modules in Ecology and Evolution Development program (MEED) with Let&#8217;s Talk Science is looking for graduate student or post-doc volunteers to present one-hour ecology and\/or evolution modules<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">(lessons) related to their own research to K-12 students!<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">This program runs from October to March and brings together K-12 educators and researchers for science outreach to classrooms. You will be paired with one teacher from any grade level (K-12) you are comfortable with and together you will discuss the module that you wish to present to the students.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The total time commitment is 10 to 20 hours over the school year and<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">includes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">1. Thursday, October 26th 6:00 \u2013 8:00 PM: Orientation and instructional training (Workshop 1) 2. November: Teacher pairings and meetings to discuss module ideas (group workshop or one-on-one \u2013 TBD) 3. November \u2013 January: creation of your module 4. Late January: Check-in and feedback session regarding your modules with all MEED participants and enhancement advice (Workshop 2).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">5. February \u2013 March: Go into the classroom and present your module!<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Interested? Please RSVP for the orientation on October 26th by e-mailing <a>meed@ubclts.com<\/a>. Dinner will be provided! Feel free to come for the first half of orientation to learn more about the program before committing. RSVPing helps us have adequate amounts of food.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please visit our website <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/meed\/\">https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/meed\/<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"> to learn more about the program, get module ideas, and register. The registration deadline is Tuesday October 31st. Please contact us at <a>meed@ubclts.com<\/a> if you have any questions.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Best,<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The MEED Team<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Modules in Ecology and Evolution Development program (MEED) with Let&#8217;s Talk Science is looking for graduate student or post-doc volunteers to present one-hour ecology and\/or evolution modules (lessons) related to their own research to K-12 students!\u00a0 This program runs from October to March and brings together K-12 educators and researchers for science outreach to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}