Some can accomplish that without taking work home, and can have a choice of additional activities
on Lab Days.
Back in the
old lab days I used e-mail mostly to sort out my social life, but now I am faced with an onslaught of demanding requests every day.
I
loved lab days and could not wait to present research projects to the rest of my class.
It is often very difficult for science teachers to provide students with alternative assignments
for lab days.
Our students in grades one through six attend the SuccessMaker
computer lab every day of the week for 30 minutes, Miller told Education World.
Although Babar is leaning toward becoming a professor and running his
own lab some day, he hasn't ruled out the other scientific employment sectors.
And although it wasn't mentioned directly, the 16
September Lab Day also occurred as the labs are facing renewed scrutiny over their efficiency and purpose.
A common
genetics lab these days, for instance, can produce 100 terabytes of information a year — equivalent to 1 million encyclopedias.
As you start the new school year, I hope the following interview with Samantha Israel, National
Lab Day Coordinator, inspires you and your students to engage in an authentic science project.
Eleventh graders at Kingsburg (California) High School also welcome World War II veterans to their school as part of a
Veterans Lab Day.
Teachers are dedicated to providing extra help to students during the Tuesday and
Thursday Lab Days.
I bought this game looking to recoup some of those Apple II memories from my elementary school
computer lab days... and boy did it bring me back.
The first few days of June for me are going to be full -
on lab days (i.e., no easing in whatsoever).
Scientific research managers aren't necessarily cooped up in
the lab all day — there are opportunities in architecture, landscaping, forestry, petroleum industry, and in the both the public and private sectors.
Because Barboiu spent many hours in
the lab each day and quickly became independent, he was also given a small room nearby where he could work by himself, Nechifor says: «For this reason Mihail evolved rapidly.»
But gerontologist George Martin of the University of Washington, Seattle (editor - in - chief of SAGE KE), was visiting
the lab that day, and Pereira - Smith volunteered to baby - sit Michael in her office for a couple of hours so that Gorbunova could meet Martin.
«It's better than
the lab days,» she says.
«I'm not this nerd who sits in
a lab all day,» she says.
After all, few journals reflect the kinds of results we see in
our labs every day — i.e., crappy ones.
She worked in
the lab all day like me, and hunched over a computer in the evening.
Projects should be comprehensible to undergraduates; students don't need to understand every detail, but they do need to know what drives the work and how it relates to what they do in
lab each day.
THERE»S a strange glow about Steve Kay's
lab these days — a green glow.
This is both a challenge and extremely exciting, because there is a sense that we are not just gathering data, but we are also making decisions about the best way to measure amino acid stability in
our lab every day.»
It's no good «sitting in
your lab all day hoping good things will come to you.
So, don't coup yourself up in
the lab all day.
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz (second from left), Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D — TX), and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R — AK) listen to a presentation on high - performance computing at National
Lab Day.
The occasion was the first - ever National
Lab Day, a brainchild of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz designed to show off how the labs contribute to U.S. science and security.
«We hope to become the eHarmony of science,» quips Jack Hidary about the grass roots project, called National
Lab Day.
Samples are mixed with solutions that stop metabolism and are immediately placed in a vat of liquid nitrogen: Plunged to -321 degrees Fahrenheit, degradation processes slow down dramatically, allowing researchers to handle the samples back in
the lab days or weeks later.
American Laboratory provides analytical chemists and life scientists with up - to - date information about equipment, instrumentation, and applications that they use in
their labs every day.
Because Mealey serves as interim Veterinary and Clinical Services department chair, she's not in
the lab every day.
I work in
a lab all day so you can guess how much sunlight exposure I get....
SI: As mentioned above, the National
Lab Day «Event» simply celebrates all of the work that is ongoing throughout the year, and it also encouragesfuture involvement in our initiative.
National
Lab Day is not just about «labs» as we normally think of them - cookie cutter labs are a major part of the decline in STEM interest.
National
Lab Day is more than just a day; it is a nationwide initiative to build local communities of support that will foster ongoing collaborationsamong volunteers, students, and educators.
SI: In the upcoming year, National
Lab Day will build on our current success.
National
Lab Day, the day itself, is a capstone day to celebrate the yearlong efforts and collaborations between students, teachers, STEMprofessionals and community volunteers - all supporting and pursuing fun hands - on learning.
The lab day was created about five years ago, to tie in with a reading assignment, Julie Craig, an 11th grade English teacher told Education World.