The lab school concept, in and of itself, isn't new to K - 12 education.
Not exact matches
Introduce the
concept of chemical reactions with this fizzy elf
lab, this was a big hit at a
school Christmas fair recently.
«All the kids [in primary
school] had learned, but they had learned [those
concepts] equally,» says Duflo, who is a co-founder of MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action
Lab (J - PAL), which conducts field experiments, often in education, around the globe.
The winning
concepts included a
school on a barge in the wetlands of New Orleans, where students will learn about coastal restoration and urban planning; a
school located in the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Public Museum; another focusing on homeless and foster children that will include physical sites, online learning, and mobile resource units that travel to the students; and a
lab school in Brooklyn that will aim to give students career experience through partnerships with nonprofits, cultural institutions, businesses, and universities.
Students (well, those whose
schools were fortunate enough to have computer
labs) would learn simple computer languages like BASIC and PASCAL, and perhaps even begin to understand
concepts like Boolean logic.
Virtual Science
Labs: Available for middle and high school students, virtual labs help students learn key science concepts with short interactive animations, examples, and virtual experime
Labs: Available for middle and high
school students, virtual
labs help students learn key science concepts with short interactive animations, examples, and virtual experime
labs help students learn key science
concepts with short interactive animations, examples, and virtual experiments.
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS • Developed a project as part of the high
school pilot project series in a bid to assist students understand the methodologies for ribonucleic acid encapsulation • Increased student interest in laboratory work by introducing real time
lab projects including minor electrostatic interactions with DNA • Decreased the number of high
school students opting out of chemistry class by 30 % by implementing chemistry
concepts through non-conventional methods of teaching • Introduced interactive curriculum development to the
school which brought about much interest from students willing to become part of the chemistry lesson planning activities
That kind of integration of social and emotional learning, rather than presenting the
concepts in an «add - on» unit that teachers are supposed to insert into their schedules, is how skill - building is supposed to unfold, said Janet Thompson,
school director of the Early Childhood
Lab at UC Davis and one of the authors of the California Preschool Curriculum Framework.