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Scientific Method Writing a Clear Lab Procedure

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Amy Brown Science
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Grade Levels
6th - 10th, Homeschool
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The students had a blast trying to figure out how to write the procedure! It caused considerable thought and discussion about which ways would be the clearest. Drove home the learning objectives.
This was a wonderful way to practice lab safety and skill at the beginning of the school year to engage my students. My students loved this activity and reported telling other teachers, students, and their parents about the lab!
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Description

Scientific Writing Activity: Can your students write a clear and concise laboratory procedure? In this simple activity, students will build a unique and unusual structure. Student will then write instructions for how to build the structure. Students will swap sets of instructions and attempt to build the structures of other students.

Why is this important?

A key component of the scientific method is the recording and publishing of results. In his/her publication, a scientist must give the procedural steps used to perform the experiment. Other scientists will repeat this work to verify the results. In this activity, students will quickly realize the importance of writing a clear laboratory procedure.

What materials and supplies are needed?

  • Sets of building materials that can be connected or stacked into unique structures.  Examples: Jenga blocks, Lego pieces, tinker toys, molecular model set, pipe cleaners, rubber bands, gum drops, toothpicks … the possibilities are endless!
  • Notebook paper
  • Pencil
  • Screen to work behind, such as file folder

This activity can be used with students in grades 6 through 12. By changing up the "building materials" that are used the activity is easily adaptable to students of different grade levels and ability levels.

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Total Pages
3 pages
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Teaching Duration
50 minutes
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Standards

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Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.
Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).
Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text.
Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words.
Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks; analyze the specific results based on explanations in the text.

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