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Best Practices

The Practice of Science

Big Ideas

1 page of lab safety hints and rules

A form of student-teaching-students; based on the concept that by teaching others one learns the material more thoroughly

An invitation and guide line to experiment with experiments and increase learning

Beginning of the year activity charts interest in science subjects and reviews proper construction of a bar graph

Classroom practice on 'Class Dollars' example

CSI NIGHT activity introduction and overview to a night of forensic science role-playing and mystery-solving with real science

CSI NIGHT agenda

CSI NIGHT directions

CSI NIGHT flyer for 08

CSI NIGHT Tables

Description of an introduction to the concept of the mole & Avogadro's number

Description of the 'Famous scientist Project'

Detailed description of a review game for any grade or subject

Disposal of reaction products and chemicals

Enhance critical thinking of lab results with related questions

Enhancing your curriculum with science articles, PPT with links

Forensics document and handwriting analysis lab

Hemisphericity quiz for students to explore whether they are right or left brained

Household hazardous waste referrence chart

Idea for a general procedure to teach in multiple forms to address all learning styles

Lab and activities to reinforce measurement concepts

Lab Techniques Followup

Lab Techniques

Learning strategies and activities and some geology information

Look at 3 scenarios and evaluate them from a scientific method perspective

Management ideas to increase student productivity and demonstrate the process of an experiment

Measure yourself in metric activity increases student skills with the metric system, fascilitationg scientific measurement later

Methods for disposing chemicals

Metric lab to practice metric measurements and scientific tools of measurement

Narrative lab reports answer lab questions in an essay

Operational definition of science poem

Outline for studnet design of an experiment

PowerPoint slides from a critical thinking presentation on teaching in science

Preparing solutions outline

Reinforcing scientific method with a 9 book classroom game

Ruler activity exploring a basic concept of significant figures

Safety Contract

Short critical thinking assignment to complete in the first few minutes of class

Some instruction on creating a PowerPoint

Strategies for Classroom periods that are 90 minutes long- includes lessons, labs, testing, and substitute teacher procedures

Tardiness issue solved with this assignment idea, students work on a question of the day before class 'begins'

This demonstration shows the potential harm of wearing contact lenses in the lab

This demonstration illustrates the importance of using clean glass ware in the lab

Thoughts on how to make science relevant to students

Uncertainty in measurement of common labratory instruments is explored with this lab activity in which students learn limitations

'Why Wear Goggles' safety demonstration and song

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