Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts

Monday, 13 May 2013

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.

Monday, 15 April 2013

The Consumption Rate Of SEPUP Kits


Across America, teachers are encountering the SEPUP program for teaching. In the almost 50 years since we shipped our first kit, we have been proudly providing school science curriculum kits to teachers across the nation. While these kits have become extremely popular, those who encounter them for the first time frequently question the consumption rate of the items in the SEPUP kits, including the extremely useful SEPUP trays.

Each of the science kits that LAB-AIDS sells comes with everything that is indicated on the package details. For some of these school science curriculum products, there are additional items or tools that the teacher will need to provide for their own classroom.

Wednesday, 10 April 2013

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.