Cleanup in the Science Classroom
If you don’t explicitly train your students to clean up after themselves, they’ll happily allow you to do it for them. I’m embarrassed to...
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Displaying Science Equipment
Now that we've taken care of our small supplies and our unit equipment what else do we have to think about? Is there anything we could...
Organize Your Science Supplies
When setting up your classroom space and routines, I think it’s helpful to think of this process as crafting a schema—a buzzword we used...
Organizing Your Science Equipment
Last week we discussed storing small items such as office supplies and smallish pieces of equipment used on a regular basis. Today we’ll...
No Sink? No Problem!
Do you wish you had more classroom sinks? Do you wish you had any classroom sinks? That was certainly my issue when I walked into our...
Buy or Scrounge? Collecting Materials for the Science Classroom
I grew up on an island… We had two grocery stores and little else in the way of shopping. Needless to say we became pretty adept and...
The Commotion-Free Classroom: Loosing Control in the Science Lab
I teach in a small room. It’s full of dangerous equipment. My students are 11-14 year olds. What could go wrong? After a long stint in...
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