Love the Lab, Hate the Lab Report?

Journal Article | March 2018

Implementing an “intervention” lab report format that even struggling students will complete.

Lab With Dad

Journal Article | January 2012

A simple annual event, "Lab With Dad," targets a specific age group of students who spend an evening "doing science" with their dad or another significant adult.

The Farmer in the Lab

Journal Article | January 2010

Agriculture can play a key role in fostering scientific literacy because it brings important plant and ecosystem concepts into the classroom. Plus, agriculture, like science, is not static and includes much trial and…

Arriving at a Better Answer: A Decision Matrix for Science Lab Course Format

Journal Article | February 2019

This article presents a single case study and a decision matrix for how one institution informed their choice for the modality of a chemistry lab course.

NOT Another Lab Report

Journal Article | December 2011

To encourage critical thinking and improve scientific literacy, the author created an open-inquiry lab experience that students work on three to four times a year based on major content shifts that students explore (…

The E-mail Lab

Journal Article | August 2015

Teaching nature of science and science practices through story construction.

A Museum Learning Lab

Journal Article | March 2008

The “Learning Lab: The Cell” exhibit was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Museum and the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS). Specially designed for middle and high school…

A Virtual Circuits Lab

Journal Article | June 2010

The University of Colorado’s Physics Education Technology (PhET) website offers free, high-quality simulations of many physics experiments that can be used in the classroom. The Circuit Construction Kit, for example,…