Join Lab-Aids at the Michigan Science Teachers Association Annual Conference. We will be in Booth 119.
See our workshop schedule here:
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2020
NGSS EVOLUTION: EMBRY-OH!
Meeting Room 104 | 8:00am - 8:45am
Middle School Life Science
Students analyze and interpret skeletal and embryological images to identify patterns of similarities and differences across species that look very different as mature animals. Students identify patterns of similarities throughout developmental time to infer evolutionary relationships not obvious in the mature animals. This activity provides an opportunity to assess student work related to MS-LS4-3.
WHAT IS A SPECIES?
Meeting Room 104 | 9:00am - 9:45am
High School Biology
In this activity from SEPUP high School biology program, participants learn about conditions that lead to speciation, including isolation due to temporal, geographical, and behavioral factors, and more. They then apply this knowledge to determine whether selected animal or plant pairs are in the early, mid, or late stages of speciation.
CELL DIFFERENTIATION AND GENE EXPRESSION
Meeting Room 104 | 10:00am - 10:45am
High School Biology
Students often have trouble conceptualizing how selective gene expression works. In this workshop, participants will use manipulatives to teach this concept and explain how it is connected to genetic engineering. Innovative activities are selected from the new Science and Global Issues: Biology program from SEPUP and Lab-Aids. Activities focus on ways to integrate selective gene expression as a relevant and engaging sustainability issue.
PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND RESPIRATION
Meeting Room 104 | 11:00am - 11:45am
High School Biology
Students have major misconceptions about photosynthesis and cellular respiration, but this content is essential for understanding how matter and energy flows, both at the micro (cellular) and macro (ecosystem) levels. Using a computer simulation, a hands-on activity, and notebooking and discussion strategies, expose student thinking-all from SEPUP's Science and Global Issues: Biology program from Lab-Aids.
NGSS ENERGY: HOT BULBS
Meeting Room 104 | 1:00am - 1:45am
Middle School Physical Science
Students apply their understanding of the concepts of energy transfer and transformation to compare the efficiencies of two different types of light bulbs. They do so by measuring the amount of thermal energy produced by the two bulbs, applying the law of conservation of energy, and calculating how much of the electrical energy supplied was converted into light energy.
NGSS LAND, WATER, AND HUMAN INTERACTIONS: CUTTING CANYONS AND BUILDING DELTAS
Meeting Room 104 | 2:00am - 2:45am
Middle School Earth Science
Students take on the roles of civil engineers as they use a river model to investigate how flowing water erodes and deposits sediments to create common landforms. They then design erosion-control structures and use the river model to test them. Based on the results of their initial testing, students redesign and retest their structures. This activity, from the new SEPUP Interactions middle level unit (NGSS middle level edition) addresses MS-ESS.A, MS-ETS1.A, and MS-ESS2.C.
EDC EARTH SCIENCE: CALLING ALL CARBONS
Meeting Room 104 | 3:00am - 3:45am
Middle School Earth Science
The element of carbon is critical to life on Earth. All living organisms contain different and essential carbon-based molecules. Several Earth processes work together to cycle carbon from one carbon reservoir to another and to keep the amount in each reservoir stable. Participants will model learn about and model different carbon transfer processes.
SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020
NAC: pH SCALE
Meeting Room 104 | 8:00am - 8:45am
High School Chemistry
What does pH actually measure? In this investigation, you will measure pH indirectly using indicators and absorption using the Lab-Master. Using their data participants generate a graph of absorbance vs pH. This graph can be used to determine the pH of solutions., within the measured pH range. Join us for this activity from The Natural Approach to Chemistry program.
NAC: ONE IN A MILLION
Meeting Room 104 | 9:00am - 9:45am
High School Chemistry
How do we teach topics such as electron congurations - that were graduate school material a generation ago- so that high school students can learn and understand them? Walk away with some effective ways to teach the structure of the atom. Using a user-friendly spectrophotometer, explore how light interacts with dyes. Then use unique spectrum cards to show how atoms, color, and spectra are related, making a conceptual bridge between a core chemical technology- making dyes- and the fundamental structure of the atom.