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The Kitchen Sink: A Potpourri of Safety Tips
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Middle school teaching isn’t just about the curriculum. When students rotate from class to class, minutes are precious. Teachers must plan to structure a class period to everyone’s best advantage, anticipating a myriad…
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Live Long and Prosper: And Remember You Are Responsible
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The teachers are the professionals—responsibilities include more than the education of students. The chapters in this book are meant to sharpen teachers’ observational skills so they can recognize the issues and…
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Communities of Learners: Promoting Safety for Every Student
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One pervasive theme in the National Science Education Standards is that goals are meant for all students—regardless of learning style, background, or ability. Supporting all learners becomes more difficult in middle…
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Where Science Happens: Equipping Your Lab for Safety
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Unless a middle school facility was built fewer than 20 years ago, chances are it was originally designed and built for another purpose—a solution to an enrollment or facility problem—not an educational concept. But for…
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Finders Keepers: Essentials of Safer Storage
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It takes a lot of “stuff” to conduct a middle school science program. Middle school science teachers look enviously at their peers in the English department who neatly carry everything they need for class in a single…
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Lively Science: Live Organisms Are Worth the Work
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Middle school is the perfect setting for teaching life science. Observing and studying living organisms are critical to a good, strong program. Preserved specimens, computer simulations, photographs, and videos may be…
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Modern Alchemy: Safer Teaching with Chemistry
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From making mud pies in a sandbox to messing with a magic set and sending secret messages with markers that produce invisible writing, chemistry engages students’ passions for mixing things together and producing…
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Falling for Science: Physical Science May Be Simpler Than You Think
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Many students get their first exposure to quantitative physical science in middle school. The National Science Education Standards recommend that students study motions, forces, and transfer of energy during these years…
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The Great Outdoors: Field Trips Near and Far
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The classroom is rich with resources and activities, but some things simply can’t be done there. A strong investigative science program depends on providing students with the opportunity to collect and analyze data.…
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Setting the Scene: Safer Science in a Drive-Through Learning Community
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Developing a responsible and safe introductory community college laboratory science program is a challenge. The subject matter is complex, requiring cerebral, technical, and mechanical skills. The prior knowledge and…
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The Kitchen Sink: A Potpourri of Teaching Tips
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The 21st century has brought new technology as well as new concerns. After covering traditional safety categories in previous chapters, this chapter discusses items that fit nowhere else, such as internet use, allergies…
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Live Long and Prosper: And Remember You Are Responsible
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Today's society is quite litigious, and many people place blame on instructors for factors well beyond the instructors' control. This chapter shares tips on how professionals can "Live Long and Prosper" by protecting…
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Communities of Learners: Promoting Science for Every Citizen
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This chapter looks at ways to accommodate diverse needs and goals—not only to make a program safer but also to help everyone involved achieve the goals that brought them to the community college campus. A number of…
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Where Science Happens: Equip Your Lab for Safety
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Many college buildings are aging and with increases in enrollment, some administrators are forced to use stopgap scheduling or emergency housing. This chapter discusses space and equipment, while highlighting the…
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Finders Keepers: Essentials of Safer Storage
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More than any other community college instructional disciplines, laboratory sciences require safe and secure storage facilities. This includes storage within the classroom/lab, as well as dedicated storage areas…
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