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Lab Activity - Observations

Students move to stations around the classroom. As they examine a variety of biological materials from the teacher and school's collection they are to record data, make inferences and compose questions based on their time at the station. Students must visit a prescribed number of stations (6) for a time (30-60 sec?) and record their data on a piece of their own paper. A potential follow up activity would include completing a Lab Report.

At each station you visit record the following:

  1. Station Identification Number
  2. What is it?

(A quick initial observation, just a few words)

  • A specific detail.

(A longer look, take some data. Make a deeper observation about something specific.)

  • A question.

(Ask a question about the object(s)?)