Four Engaging Lab Activities for Spectroscopy
Help your students understand spectroscopy with these hand-on lab activities. Here are 4 engaging hands-on lab activities from Thermo Fisher Scientific that use the Spectronic® 200 Spectrophotometer to help your students understand spectroscopy. Each activity has been fully tested to ensure reliable, accurate results. Extensive background material is provided for each experimental concept, including the […]
10 Tips for Creating Social Distance in Your Science Classroom
We’ve put together a list of recommendations to help you as you plan labs and science activities for the year. Creating and maintaining social distance in your classroom shouldn’t be a pain point. We’ve put together a list of recommendations to help you as you plan labs and science activities for the year. , Follow […]
Webinar: Life Cycle and Growth and Development
Join us for a live webinar to explore hands-on-learning opportunities using Wisconsin Fast Plants®. Life Cycle and Growth and Development with Wisconsin Fast Plants® One lesson we can take away from 2020 is the importance of hands-on learning and how valuable classroom time is for creating learning opportunities. How can we build on those experiences […]
Nomenclature and Bonding Basics of Ionic Compounds
How to spot ionic compounds Students often struggle to identify types of compounds and name them appropriately. The first step is to identify if a compound is primarily ionic or covalent. Ionic compounds are often solid with crystalline forms. Covalent compounds on the other hand, can be gases, liquids, or solids and the solid state […]
Webinar: Making Thinking Visible
How do you implement portfolio instruction during remote and hybrid learning? And how can you use these teaching techniques to engage students? Student collaboration is a key component of social-emotional learning–but collaboration can prove challenging during remote and hybrid learning. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to engage students by analyzing and interpreting data while […]
Forensics
Make Real-World Connections and Engage Students When crime scene investigators collect and analyze evidence from the scene of a crime, they are applying forensic science. By using tools from physical science, biology, and math, investigators are able to recreate and analyze the elements of a crime scene. Forensic science allows law enforcement officials to determine […]
Bloody Chlorophyll Lab
“Scare” your students by exciting the electrons of chlorophyll molecules with black light, causing the molecules to release their energy in the form of “bloody” red light in a darkened classroom. Sunlight is white light that is actually a mixture of different wavelengths of light from the visible light spectrum. Photosynthetic plants gather energy from […]
Reproductive System
Reproductive System Introduce Reproductive System It’s time to have the sex talk! We have materials to help make teaching the reproductive system easy and less stressful. Learn more. It’s time to have the sex talk! No reason to blush or get embarrassed. This can be difficult material for the most seasoned educator. Unlike some of […]
Tips for Creating an Engaging Online Course
Create an engaging online course. Here’s how . . . To ensure online teaching success, student engagement is of paramount importance. As the saying goes, an engaged student is a motivated student. Studies show: If students aren’t engaged, they can’t perform at their best. A sense of belonging to a group enhances student performance. Online […]
Urinary System
Urinary System Introduce Urinary System Unless they’re on a long car trip or cross-country flight, most people don’t give their urinary system a second thought. They should, though. A fully functioning urinary system is necessary for an active, healthy life. The system filters extra water and waste products, such as salts and proteins, from the […]