Introducing The New Classes To Middle School Science Experiments

We all know how awkward and confusing the middle school years can be on students. You find the early weeks of each new school year to be a blur of students lost in the corridors, jammed lockers, and vast adjustments from the elementary setting that the students were all too recently in. When you are tasked with adding experiments to the middle school science curriculum, and students have their first experience with hands-on science, you need to know that you can stay in control.

When students suddenly find themselves in the group setting of middle school science experiments, the initial temptation to goof off instead of doing their work can be overwhelming. The average first year middle school student has never encountered hands-on experiments before, and can be all too distracted by the concept of mixing chemicals and causing explosions like they have grown up seeing on cartoons.

How Immature Is Too Immature For Middle School Science Experiments?

A common apprehension that we hear from middle school science teachers is a concern about the potential combination of an immature class level mixing poorly with scientific experiments. As part of science education, we here at Lab-Aids understand these concerns, and would like a chance to address those worried teachers. When it comes to school science, we believe that there is no such thing as a class that is too young or too immature to experience the scientific method first hand.

What we will encourage, however, is a selective approach to the middle school science experiments that you select for your less mature classes. Among our offerings at Lab-Aids, we do have those science education kits that are more involved, and those that could be considered suitable for a younger school science class. It is due to this reasoning that we go out of our way to present you with a detailed description of what our kits and modules contain, including a basic overview of what students will be asked to do during the experiment itself.

Explaining The Practical Uses For School Science Experiments

As a teacher of the middle school science curriculum, one of the problems that you undoubtedly face with every new batch of students is a complete lack of interest. It's not that your teaching methods are incorrect, it is simply that your students are at the critical age where school science experiments, and anything involving school in general, are deemed by your students to be a complete waste of their time.

Here at Lab-Aids, we are all too familiar with the problem you face. Your students have reached that crucial point in their development where members of the opposite gender are more important than Newton's laws, and the latest fashions in music, technology and clothing far outweigh the lasting implications of fundamental geologic studies. Trying to engage your students and make them care about your lessons is a daily struggle that it seems like any small distraction is capable of derailing.