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Mentor’s Interventions
Home as Lab
Home as Lab
A signif
A significant Component in icant Component in
Science T
Science Teachingeaching
‘WITHOUT LABS PEOPLE OF SCIENCE ARE SOLDIERS WITHOUT ARMS’
-Louis Pasteur
S cience lab experiences improve student upon meaningful workable solutions for
understanding of scientific facts and con-
maintaining a coherent & cohesive environ-
cepts and of the way in which these concepts ment in my school science labs. But during
are applicable to their daily lives. Labs pro- the period of pandemic when everything
vide experimental foundation and familiar- came to a halt and schools were closed, I had
ise students with scientific methods of to think quickly beyond the boundaries
collecting and analysing data. Labs of a school. To understand science
teach students to make careful one needs experience in experi-
experimental observations and mentation. But that seemed to
how to think about and draw be impossible during the
conclusions from such data. closure of schools.
The laboratory is not a com- I as a teacher was trying to do
petition whose object is to get my best to keep my students
the “right answer.” The purpose interested in science subject, but
is to learn how to gain knowledge. without practical and experiments
The important objective is to learn how that can be even possible.
how to be observant and to understand, or
learn to understand, the meaning of what Shulman and Tamir, in the Second Hand-
happens. book of Research on Teaching (Travers, ed.,
1973), listed five objectives that can be
As a science teacher and being aware of all achieved through the use of the laboratory in
the above mentioned facts, I always worked science classes:
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