The Sciences teachers have started to become more hands on with assignments and labs have begun to be more common within the science department.
Students enjoy having hands-on assignments and being able to conduct labs in their science classes. It helps students grasp a better understanding of what information the teacher is trying to relay to the students.
Michelle Benson currently teaches multiple fields of Science. Botany and Zoology is one of the classes she will be teaching this school year.
Botany and Zoology conducted a lab with microscopes. The students were to examine bugs, or bug parts, and try to determine what species the insect is and look at the different structures of the insect.
“We are looking at insects under a microscope,” senior Rylee Guthrie said. “I know there’s a fruit fly under one.”
Ryan Grubbs teaches Plant Science. This past week, the students conducted a lab with rock, sand, and loam soil.
The students tested each type of soil to see how long it would take for 100 mL of water to flow through each type of soil. They were to collect the data of how much water was absorbed in the soil samples and how much filtered through the samples.After that, the students would repeat the same process but add peat soil and then record the data the same way.
Science teachers want to be able to conduct more labs and experiments.
“Yes, I would like to have more labs,” science teacher Ms. Benson said. “We will have a worm stimuli lab. Once we get to amphibians, I want to have a frog dissection lab.”
