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To: JoeFromSidney

I think that learning something like laboratory electronics is a bit different than teaching chemistry or biology. I’m not sure I’d want students who have never handled chemicals before to be trying out chemical syntheses at home, for example.


27 posted on 11/09/2015 6:10:00 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom
I think that learning something like laboratory electronics is a bit different than teaching chemistry or biology. I’m not sure I’d want students who have never handled chemicals before to be trying out chemical syntheses at home, for example.

I understand your point. However, as a child I had a chemistry set that allowed me to do quite a few different experiments. I not only learned about acids and bases, but did things like making soaps and dyes. (I also made fireworks, but those weren't in the manual.) I think a chemistry lab could be based on the same sort of kit.

I had a microscope set that included some already-prepared slides, but which allowed me to make my own slides of things like slices of plant stems and pollen, and to see the microscopic critters in pond water. I think a biology lab could be based on a similar kit.

I had an Erector set that I used to make quite a few contraptions. I think a mechanical engineering lab or a structures lab could be based on a similar kit.

In short, I think it would be possible to make kits that would give suitable lab training in a variety of sciences. It would take careful thought, but we do hve examples to draw on, such as chemistry sets and Erector sets.

29 posted on 11/10/2015 1:10:54 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (,)
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