A teaching laboratory is a place equipped for experiments and for teaching. Labs don't have to be elaborately stocked. However, they do need a teacher who has a solid lesson plan and a great understanding of the concept(s) at hand, with enough equipment to scaffold the learners' understanding. The above materials were partial preparation for a lab on osteoporosis at the Middle College at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG).
The Guilford County School District has two S.T.E.M. high schools, one on UNCG's campus and one at North Carolina A&T University. The UNCG program emphasizes health and life sciences and the A&T program emphasizes engineering. Both programs teach students to use the engineering design process. Hopefully, the students on both campuses will graduate and go on to become scientists running laboratories around the United States-- or the world.
Today is ABC Wednesday and for our S.T.E.A. M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) Series, "L" is for "laboratory. (See A-K, here).
He had a skeleton like that in our high school: I can't remember a single bone name beyond tibia and femur, but I can remember everything we did to it!
Posted by: VP | Wednesday, October 01, 2014 at 06:46 AM
It looks like a nicely stocked lab.
Posted by: William Kendall | Wednesday, October 01, 2014 at 07:34 PM
worst case of malnutrition I've ever seen
ROG, ABCW
Posted by: Roger Green | Wednesday, October 01, 2014 at 08:34 PM