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Lab Check 1...2...3: Helping students write clear and concise laboratory reports
Journal Article |
Students sometimes struggle to write clear and concise lab reports. The checklist in this article provides students with a clearer understanding of what to include in a lab report.
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Journal Article |
The authors engaged in an education experiment to determine if the integration of lab and lecture activities in zoology and botany proved beneficial to student learning and motivation toward biology. Their results…
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Fun with Buoyancy: Students gain insight on Archimedes' principle through a novel buoyancy lab
Journal Article |
Through a novel buoyancy lab, students learn and sharpen skills in measurement and gain insight on Archimedes' principle. This activity provides an engaging method for getting the buoyancy concept across to students and…
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Earth History Theories: Relative Age Dating Lab With Additions for Mining and Mineral Exploration
Journal Article |
Dig into this stratigraphy lab to learn how scientists assign ages to specific rock layers.
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Take-Home Physics: 65 High-Impact, Low-Cost Labs (e-Book)
eBook |
Take-Home Physics is an excellent resource for high school physics teachers who want to devote more classroom time to complex concepts while challenging their students with hands-on homework assignments. This volume…
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Archive: Competitive Application for the Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge, December 10, 2020
Web Seminar |
The Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge Competition acknowledges exceptional and innovative science educators, to recognize outstanding K–12 school programs for their exemplary approaches to science lab…
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Archive: Are your Lab SOPs in Place for a Safer School Year?, September 16, 2021
Web Seminar |
As the 2021–2022 school year approaches and things are getting closer to “normal,” it’s time to re-establish our STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) spaces (for the purposes of this web seminar, STEM spaces…
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Building a Better Biology Lab? Testing Tablet PC Technology in a Core Laboratory Course
Journal Article |
Tablet PC technology can enliven the classroom environment because it is dynamic, interactive, and “organic,” relative to the rigidity of chalkboards, whiteboards, overhead projectors, and PowerPoint presentations.…
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Argument-Driven Inquiry in Biology: Lab Investigations for Grades 9-12 (e-book)
eBook |
Are you interested in using argument-driven inquiry for high school lab instruction but just aren’t sure how to do it? You aren’t alone. This book will provide you with both the information and instructional materials…
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Argument-Driven Inquiry in Chemistry: Lab Investigations for Grades 9-12 (e-book)
eBook |
Transform your chemistry labs with this guide to argument-driven inquiry. Designed to be much more authentic for instruction than traditional laboratory activities, the investigations in this book give high school…
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Argument-Driven Inquiry in Life Science: Lab Investigations for Grades 6-8 (e-book)
eBook |
If you’ve been wanting to bring the benefits of argument-driven inquiry to your middle school life science classes, this book will help you get started. The book provides 20 field-tested labs to help your…