Position Title: Fifth Grade Life Science Intern
Hours: 40 per week
Rate of pay: $12.00 per hour
Minimum Age: 18

Summary:
Work outdoors with a dynamic team to teach life science concepts to small groups of fifth graders and lead small groups of younger children on tours of the farm and nature preserve.

Content:
Stratford Ecological Center is a non-profit educational organic farm and nature preserve in Delaware County, Ohio. The intern will have the opportunity to work with children of various ages.

The program for fifth-graders, called Messages from the Earth, is directed toward teaching life science and includes such topics as photosynthesis, food chains, and interrelationships among organisms.

The intern will be one of the guides who leads the students on trails, stopping at various stations to lead them through hands-on activities.
This intern will also assist in Stratford’s Farm and Field Trip program as an Environmental Education intern. These programs are for younger children and are discovery-based. The intern will escort groups around the farm, stopping to show them how the farm works and to admire the wonders of nature.
The intern will gain valuable experience in a variety of other activities as well, as he or she conducts in-school pre-visit presentations, tends the children’s garden and participates in chores around the farm. It is an exciting and enriching place to be as we work together to open a world new to the students.

Low cost housing is available just a few minutes from Stratford. Housing includes internet, cable, phone, and laundry. Interns also receive free produce and discounts on eggs and meat from the farm.

Training provided.

Temporary, full-time position.
• Fall and/or
• Mid February through May

For more information, or to apply for this internship, contact Emily Kridel at emilyk@stratfordecologicalcenter.org or call the main office at 740-363-2548

https://stratfordecologicalcenter.org/internship-opportunities/