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The purpose of the science lab elective is to allow our eighth grade students a chance at extending their science class beyond the short cook book labs that teachers are often forced to resort to due to the amount of material that they need to cover.  In the science lab elective, we take the subjects covered in the eighth grade science curriculum: process skills (introduction to the scientific method), chemistry, electricity, force and motion, and light and sound and give the students a chance to actually apply the scientific method.  Each unit begins with two to five of the one day labs mentioned above so that I am sure that the students have a grounding in the unit in question, then they are given a challenge/question upon which we will do a more lengthy lab.  This later type of lab has the students identifying what variables might come into play, making hypothesis as to how their these variables will change the situation, testing these hypothesis in the lab, and then finally reporting their findings, either in a presentation to the class or in a formalized lab report.

Click on "Sample Projects/Labs" to see a description of some of the larger labs and projects that we do, including the final project and some egg dropping fun.