Opportunities to do math and science in a school environment are limited to 45 minutes between the bells, including set-up and break-down. Hardly enough time to punch the buttons and get a number. But in depth measurement needs to be the focus of science education – which is where you find Redile.
Research Directed Learning Environments are places where students and the average joe can find solace in good measurement. The Science Zones are experiences where students and mentors can share enthusiasm for a narrow technical field. Based in the natural resources of the Umpqua Valley, the Oregon Natural Resources Research Institute provides access to equipment and expertise for students interested in becoming hands-on outdoors.
Science Zones focus on aspects of natural resource measurement – in Forestry beginning with maps and compasses and graduating to clinometers and relaskops. Students and mentors share the learning experience based on a protocol currently used by a land management agency. People will learn how to speak the language and use the equipment, based on following technical protocols.
Redile also focuses on Water Quality, using chemistry to monitor biology. ONRRI students have participated in biological surveys of amphibians, mollusks and macro-invertebrates: salamanders, snails and bugs. We play with little kids in parks at Creek Week and big kids in parks like Twin Lakes. The OINKS (On-line Interactive News Kasts) detail events of interest to naturalists and other readers at http://www.schoolenrichment.com/lecturehall/
To be part of the first classes - Average Joe Chemistry or Chemistry for Teens - contact Dr. Lenny at lenny@redile.org . Local Douglas County folks may qualify to have tuition picked up under a grant from our sponsor :-)
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You are more likely to get in touch with Dr. Lenny by going to lenny@redile.org
i made the edit to get the proper address, much thanks
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