Planning the School Year
It’s time to plan your school year. You may be teaching the required courses—biology, chemistry, earth and space science, or physics—or you may be teaching an elective like anatomy and physiology, forensics, genetics, STEM, or an AP® class. In all reality, you’re probably planning and preparing for more than one course, and that’s a lot of hands-on science. Carolina is here with resources that can ease your planning and prepping stress.
Boats and Buoyancy
Investigate physical science and engineering concepts including buoyancy, displacement, and density. Students construct an aluminum foil boat prototype and measure how much weight their boat can carry before taking on water or sinking.
Ecology: Ecosystem Interactions
Carolina has everything you need to teach ecology. This guide on ecosystem interactions, breaks down the important information students need to know, provides links to products and free digital resources, and includes suggestions for hands-on-labs that reinforce student learning.
Planning an Active, Hands-On Chemistry Course with Carolina Kits
Whether you’re a new or experienced chemistry teacher, look to Carolina for your hands-on chemistry needs. Our kits are designed with your teaching goals in mind. Engage students with activities that allow them to explore science and engineering practices, master challenging concepts, think critically, and solve problems. Our unique chemistry kit-lines help you tailor hands-on activities to your students’ learning needs and facilitate your planning and preparation.
Ensuring Safe Labs: Getting Students Engaged
Exciting discoveries can happen in science labs, but without proper care and precaution, serious injuries can happen there too. Prevent injuries and damage to equipment by teaching your students about safety equipment and safe behavior in the lab.
Explain safety rules and procedures with the engaging activities below. Remember to consult your own school district’s safety and equipment policies as well.
Chemical Hygiene Plans for Science Classrooms
A chemical hygiene plan (CHP) is a written program stating the policies, procedures, and responsibilities that serve to protect employees from the health hazards associated with the hazardous chemicals used in that particular workplace.
Substitute Plans
It’s that time of year again when you’re asked to provide lesson plans for a substitute who may or may not have a science background. Keep your students engaged in science with activities that are safe and easy for a substitute to manage. Make it Phenomenal! Use our Phenomena Video Gallery to get students questioning […]
Caring for Classroom Critters Over Breaks
It’s the end of the school year and your classroom is filled with critters in your aquarium, terrarium, or petri dishes. What do you do with them over summer break?
General Rules for Chemical Storage
First, identify any specific requirements regarding the storage of chemicals from: local, state, and federal regulations insurance carriers To help facilitate safe chemical storage, many Carolina chemical bottles have color-coded caps . The cap color indicates the appropriate storage setting making it easy to visually spot a misplaced chemical and to locate the chemical group […]
Carnivorous Plants
What do you think of when you hear the term carnivorous plant? Does it conjure up images of man-eating plants deep within a tropical jungle, perhaps science experiments gone bad, or even Audrey II from the 1960 movie, The Little Shop of Horrors?