Science lab organization

If you look on Pinterest you are sure to see a lack of science classroom decoration ideas. I want to share with you my...

When setting up your classroom space and routines, I think it’s helpful to think of this process as crafting a schema—a buzzword we used in the museum field. It means your audience has to have an idea of the structure of how something works before they can engage with the content. Can you remember the first time you went to a cafeteria with a scatter design? Perhaps it took a while to realize that you didn’t have to stand in line, or rather, that there wasn’t just one line. Now, this type of…

This page has beautiful pictures of a secondary science classroom. They’ve been submitted by Mike Dyre, who’s been teaching science for 28 years! This is his science lab classroom at Forest Park High School in Woodbridge VA. He has wonderful ideas for setting up and organizing a science lab. I love how colorful and inviting his classroom is! … Continued

Get back hours of prep time and never set up a lab again! Organize science equipment so that students can set up AND put away their own labs.

Check out these great lab organization tips written by another great science teacher-author, Liezel Pienaar! I have spent most of my 16 years in the classroom as the only Science teacher at a school. Yes, me, myself and I being the whole Biology, Chemistry and Physics departments! Throw in some Maths and Geography […]

After sixteen years of teaching, high school teacher Kisaundra Harris switched to flexible seating. Her students now call her classroom a safe haven.

My classroom game is on POINT this year! I am a secondary science teacher with limited wall space. I’ve wanted to figure out a way to spice up my classroom decor with authentic, colorful materials and anchor charts. As a science teacher, my wall space is covered with cabinets and whiteboards, leaving little room for […]

Last week we discussed storing small items such as office supplies and smallish pieces of equipment used on a regular basis. Today we’ll look at the science equipment that is specific to unit studies.As I work through various units, I find there’s a lot of equipment specific to that unit. In my early classrooms, I had plenty of cupboard space to store everything, so I didn’t have to be strategic, but in the more recent ones, that simply wasn’t the case. I had to figure out how to store this…

Blog post with tips for planning, setting up lab bins, assigning lab groups, and ideas for helping lab day go smoothly for new science teachers.

Blog post with tips for planning, setting up lab bins, assigning lab groups, and ideas for helping lab day go smoothly for new science teachers.