Biology Outreach Program
Faculty
The Reed Biology professor collaborates with the Outreach Coordinator to develop a single, or a series of, experiments designed to illustrate important and basic concepts of Biology. These experiments are the core of an eight-week science unit which ultimately demonstrates that science is not dull, but an exciting exploration of interesting questions. Regardless of the topic, each unit details the scientific method and develops the theme that science is a process.
To date we have explored a number of different topics such as Plant Biology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Microbiology, and Amphibian Ecology. Many times the experiments used in the Outreach program are scaled down versions of concepts covered in Reed's Introductory Biology course. The Cell Biology experiments, developed by Professor's Maryanne McClellan and Steve Black, focused on proteins in cells and paramecium digestion, respectively. Professor's David Dalton and Keith Karoly created a unit called "Extreme Plants!", which examined how plants cope with stresses in the environment from water and nutrient deficiency to pollution problems.
