How Middle School Science Experiments Help Students Learn

Book learning is good. The teacher opens the textbook and reads along with the students or assigns students to read. They may have quizzes along to test the knowledge learned, but some students struggle with learning this way. Perhaps it is because they are bored. Some may have trouble grasping the written word. Some may not understand it fully seeing it in one dimension. Seeing is better at helping to learn. Middle school science experiments help students to gain an interest in science by actually doing instead of just reading.

Middle school science experiments are a great way to capture the attention of young minds, to spark a desire to learn more about science. They are also a great way to help students retain the knowledge, because for most people, children and adults alike, actually doing things helps the learning process better. Middle school students are at a ripe age to spark interest. By the time they reach high school they should already have logged hours in a science lab, for every science class they took. They should be ready for the upper grade science classes and perhaps even start to have inkling about what they may want to do beyond high school.

The middle school science experiments should cover labs for agricultural science, earth science, life science, physical science, and STEM. Even though these are "tame" science classes, they can still be interesting running fun experiments. For agricultural science, experiments can include fun things like cheese making, proteins model, copper mining and extraction, decomposition, tree ring dating kit, periodic table kit, examining fossils, heredity kit, individual DNA model, radioactivity, and half-life, photovoltaic cells, and investigating selective breeding. These are just a sampling of the many experiments for just agricultural science.

Look at the fun earth science students can have with water cycle contaminants, plate tectonics and continental drift, plate tectonics simulation, topographic mapping, stream erosion kit and weather forecasting. Life science students can enjoy learning about blood clotting, osmosis and diffusion, enzyme activity kit, investigating human respiration, and sense of taste. Physical science students can have fun with a chemistry of corrosion kit, flame test spectroscopy kit, alcohol and esterification kit, wet cell batteries kit, and a chemiluminescence student activity kit. These are just samplings of middle school science experiments. There are many choices with science kits and science modules available.

STEM science modules and labs include hydrogen fuel cells, density module, household chemicals, thresholds and toxicology, living with plastics, decision making, and environmental health risks. Core curriculum for STEM for middle school students includes studying soil scientifically, science, erosion and deposition, weather and atmosphere, exploring space, cell biology disease, ecology, bioengineering, the chemistry of materials, energy, force and motion and waves. The science kits include remote sensing and topography, recyclable plastic, intro to water pollution, wet cell batteries kit, natural selection and antibiotic resistant bacteria and scientific method kit.