Lab+Carousels

From the lab carousels

**What are your objectives in a lab carousel?**

 * Learn different types of labs


 * Exposure to different lab procedures for different science topics
 * Practise techniques and safety procedures and using different lab materials


 * Promote student interest
 * Learn from others
 * New ideas, ways of thinking
 * Novel approaches
 * Refresh lab skills
 * Feedback, improvement
 * Practise
 * Find out what works


 * Cut down on time/resource requirements
 * Save supplies


 * Gain appreciation for amount of scaffolding required for students to initiate their work
 * Open mind to new techniques, ways of demonstrating principles
 * Boost efficiency in conducting lab work with students


 * Safety
 * Making solutions prior to lab
 * Pre lab questions
 * Getting apparatus set up


 * Learn from others
 * Gather new ideas
 * Refresh lab skills
 * Practise designing labs


 * Enduring learning concepts
 * Consolidation of knowledge


 * Learn key elements
 * Cover several experiments in a short time
 * Variety of approaches
 * Limited materials can still perform lab


 * To be exposed to a variety of demos and ways of presenting them


 * Work out flaws
 * Promote interest
 * Learn and critique


 * Proper lab technique


 * Have fun


 * Exchange new information
 * Efficiency and time saving


 * Experiential learning experience


 * Prior knowledge and pre-lab ideas


 * Practice quick thinking and adaptability


 * Students can learn from their peers
 * Many labs in one class with limited amount of time


 * Hands-on experience
 * Compare and contrast different labs


 * Encourage development of practical skills
 * Engaging examples of STSE
 * Foster nascent inquiry and application thought pathways


 * Connect theory to practical, hands-n experience

**What are your take away ideas from today?**

 * Labs work better if you extend prelab into previous day/homework
 * Encouraging students to develop their __own__ protocol before supplying one – strengthens application and inquiry skills
 * Scaffolding
 * How to improve labs
 * How to run a lab carousel
 * Provide a nice story to go with the lab
 * How to plan assessment before, during and after the lab
 * Students might get discouraged or unmotivated with long and complicated labs
 * Some very good lab ideas
 * Use an external ‘audience’ such as Merck Frosst –allow for an ‘authentic assessment’ whereby class skills could be used in applications outside class
 * Inquiry based investigation skills, chemistry knowledge
 * Inquiry based labs can be used to ‘extend’ a short lab or a lab with a lot of wait time
 * Labs that are quick and easy and where there is a colour change are more interesting. Seeing different labs gives me an idea of the different ways in which a lab can be structured.
 * It was fun! We should do more carousels
 * I like the idea of working the lab into a themed story
 * Participation, scaffolding, self-help
 * Got ideas/feedback regarding how to improve lab activity/writeup
 * Good technique to present different concepts
 * Can be a bit rushed so needs to be well timed and __organized__
 * Need to carefully choose the lab activities (ask yourself, are they possible to carry out?)
 * Safety is always important, and must be continually reinforced by teacher vigilance
 * Instructions need to be carefully worded without too much extraneous information.
 * A fun and low pressure way to introduce lab skills to students
 * Make sure the lab demo can be completed in 15 minutes
 * Visual is an important aspect (colour change)
 * How to run a lab carousel – they are a small quick way to get the ideas of possible labs – collaboration
 * SAFETY! (Goggles always)
 * Equipment limitations to find ways around it
 * Authentic labs – more engaging
 * Student developed procedures

HAVE FUN!!!!