Draft of Americas Lab Report group presentation.

1. America’s Lab Report An Action Plan for Improving our Lab Activities Eric Hall Lance Maffin Tracy Pearson Ella Spiegel

5. Teaches students specific procedures or processes that are essential to problem solving

6. Teaches critical thinking skills

7. Expects students to apply concepts to new situations

9. Builds lessons into opportunities for performance

10. Involve students in the process of being able to figure out patterns

13. They are thoughtfully sequenced into the flow of classroom science instruction

14. They are designed to integrate the learning of science content with learning about the process of science

17. Sequenced into the flow of classroom instruction

18. Design lessons to integrate learning of science content with learning about the processes of science

22. Share I3U design strategies with department-members and encourage cooperation when creating new lab experiences.