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Max-Out Labs

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Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

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I have experience as a college TA with full control of Labs in anatomy and physiology, icthyology, and general biology. Followed by several years teaching high school until I landed in Junior High.

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Homeo-staying Alive: A lab about maintaining homeostasis during exercise

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This lab uses oxygen sensors, thermometers, and blood pressure cuffs to observe changes in a body as it tries to maintain homeostasis. You can easily remove some of these stats if you are lacking the tools needed and still get similar results.

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Anatomy, Biology

Womblewomp Birds - A fun activity about evolution and ecosystem niches

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This is a fun activity showing niche partitioning and evolution. You only need several different beak types (is use fork, chopsticks, spoons, binder clips, clothespins, and tweezers) and several "food types" (I use marbles, cut-up pipe cleaners, beans, and toothpicks) but you can vary or increase/decrease the number of foods and beak types

7th - 10th

Biology, Environment

Dissection Manual

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A dissection manual for many different species including: Earthworm, Crayfish, Grasshopper, Squid, Heart, Eye, Frog, Mouse, and Starfish

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Anatomy, Biology, General Science

Playing with Ions - Test conductivity of ions and use ions to electroplate

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This lab I use together but could be done separately. We use it to test conductivity of ions and to electroplate an item (which students love). The electroplating solution takes a large volume depending on the number of groups but can be reused yearly for quite a while.

8th - 12th

Chemistry

Elemental Identity - A lab about identifying the 3 types of elements

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This lab looks at different elements and tests their luster, malleability, conductivity, and reactivity to have students determine what type of element they are. I use 12 of 13 elements I have on hand, but these can be easily replaced by others.

8th - 12th

Chemistry

Filter? Hardly Know Her - A ecology engineering lab

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This is a engineering lab about making a water filter to match the natural ecosystem services nature provides. It requires quite a few easy to find supplies but is a good experience for students.

7th - 12th

Engineering, Environment

Hungry Hornworm - A lab about energy/biomass transfer in ecosystems

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A in-depth lab showing how energy and biomass is transferred in an ecosystem. Requires hornworms and hornworm food and is easy to set up.

7th - 12th

Biology, Environment

Sense-ational: A stations lab testing different human senses.

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This lab is fun and takes 2 days but requires some supplies (almost all are reusable though) and set-up. But kids love it.

7th - 12th

Anatomy, Biology

Osmosis Happens - Lab to observe how hyper and hypotonic solutions affect cells

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This lab uses two demonstrations to observe tonicity in plant cells. The first is simply carrots (or another root vegetable like potatoes) in salt and distilled water. The second involves putting salt water on elodea cells (anacharis works too) and observing the resulting changes.

7th - 10th

Biology

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Recipe for Success - Teach good scientific methods with a recipe

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Students will use a recipe of a complicated method of food preparation (spherification) to learn why specific and clear methods are important in science. Students will be given bad instructions and try to fill in the blanks with questioning. You then answer the questions as literally as possible (to ensure specificity). They then build a recipe and test it. If they asked the right ones, it will work and they get a fun treat.

6th - 11th

General Science

Background Colors - Exploration lab about researching phenomena

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A 2-part lab about researching phenomena and applying said knowledge. Students will start by doing chromatography (without the teacher explaining what it is, only instructions) and then researching what happened. Later, they will try to discover which rival teacher (use any number of coworkers here) stole a prized possession (pick something your students know you love. I use my pet lizard and hide him at home during the lab). Use a number of black markers of different brands, 1 for each "thief"

7th - 10th

General Science, Writing-Essays

Spatter Pattern - A bloody forensic lab about designing scientific hypotheses

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This is a fun and messy lab which focuses on having students practice writing scientific hypotheses and questions. The testing and support of these will not be very rigorous but the students have fun feeling like they are solving a mystery. Get large sheets of paper and fake blood. On one sheet make a spatter pattern (I recommend using 1 factor of each variable). Give time for the students to make a series of hypotheses with their groups and then test them. Don't focus so much on scientific st

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Forensics, General Science

Plotting Our Doom - A Climate Change and Graph/Figure Reading activity

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A great way to teach climate change while also practicing reading graphs and figures. I have the kids give a 1 minute presentation on their graph. I recommend printing and laminating the graphs but you could also post online for them.

7th - 12th

Environment, General Science

Fire Up - A flame test lab

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This lab uses the flame test to examine different elements. Requires the elements in compounds (I recommend the "chloride" forms, Bunsen burners, and wire loops or sticks) Can easily remove elements based on stocks

8th - 12th

Chemistry

Roly-Poly Panic. A lab about ecosystem disturbances

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This lab uses pillbugs to measure how organisms react to environmental disturbances. It allows students to test a variety of variables. Requires pillbugs and choice chambers.

7th - 11th

Biology, Environment

Hoot Hunt - A lab to observe predator-prey relationships and trophic levels

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A lab using owl pellets to measure biomass transfer by trophic level and examine trophic levels.

7th - 12th

Biology

Slime Cycle - A carbon cycle lab

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This lab uses snails and elodea to mimic the carbon cycle and the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration.

7th - 10th

Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

Weird Sources - Identify reliable sources using the weirdest ones imaginable

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Students will each be given 1 of 30 websites. 15 are real, 15 are fake but all are weird. Students will see if they can correctly identify if they are trustworthy and fake. I usually let the kids make their argument to the class

7th - 10th

General Science

Going Bananas: A simple lab to test how hormones effect cells

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This lab only requires apples, bananas, and plastic bags and can demonstrate how hormones change the behavior of cells.

7th - 12th

Anatomy, Biology

Sharing is Infectious: A lab about how disease spreads

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A simple lab to show how disease spreads. I use it with older kids but it can easily be modified to work at any grade level. You only need cups, citric acid, and universal indicator.

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Anatomy, Biology

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About the store

Experience

I have experience as a college TA with full control of Labs in anatomy and physiology, icthyology, and general biology. Followed by several years teaching high school until I landed in Junior High.

Teaching style

My goal is to increase engagement through hands-on learning and increase critical thinking through rigor. Students get worksheets, art projects, and posters in every other class. Science is the chance to mix it! Every creature uses play as a learning tool, so I make sure we play in class (safely) by doing fun, silly, weird, and cool science. I maximize the number of labs I do with some lecture between to make sure we cover the prerequisite knowledge or review. Many labs I do, that I offer here, are heavily scaffolded so even Junior High students can get them, sometimes with help, but they can be offered to High School or even college level with tweaks to increase or decrease scaffolding as needed. All of my questions revolve around the scientific method and critical thinking. No multiple choice: application is the goal. If you find anything too hard, you can easily add information to the questions to make them easier. You might also just focus on the lab procedures for a fun day of science. Because of the challenging nature of my lessons, I allow corrections once on wrong answers (except for tests). Some kids learn best from failing. Being allowed to fail and stand back up again build confidence, challenges gifted and talented, and teaches hard-work. It also motivates students to try harder the first time so they don't have to correct the second.

My own education history

Master's and undergraduate in Biological Sciences with a minor in education. My most important degree is a lifelong love of science and a constant intake of knowledge. We never stop learning.