Science Education Journal

A class lecture is a traditional teaching methodology. In a day, there are several subjects to be completed so it is non sense to expect students sitting and listening to the teacher only. Research done on student boredom shows that 60% of students find their lectures boring and half of these confessed that all lectures were similarly boring. It happens also in biology lectures. One sided approach is tedious. The teacher does all the talking and fire questions in the middle of nowhere and there’s hell to pay when a student can’t give the correct answer. Visuals aids can put some life into the lectures and the microscope can do more than the visual aid to help students understand the mysteries of cellular division or the characteristics of microorganisms. The compound microscope in lab supplies the need with adding camera and video systems.

Studying living organisms under the microscope tends to be boring also if they students do not know how to handle the controls and sees nothing interesting through the eyepiece. They should master the parts of the microscope and learn how each part works and these are manipulated or controlled. Basically, it is easy to handle a compound microscope. There are several types of compound microscopes and students should be able to know how to use the upright and inverted microscopes to appreciate their different uses in lab research. Students should be given the chance to see specimens from different high-powered microscopes, including the polarized light microscope for different applications – tool making, nanoelectronics, textiles, and minerals.

School may send an inquire letter to compound microscopes dealer. The dealer will happily give demos of the different microscopes to a class. Truly, this method will blow students interest in biology and other research fields. This request might not be entertained but if it is, teaching biology would be more effective and listening to biology lectures would not be too much of a bore.

Safety come first when it relates to experiment. Very often accidents happen in science laboratories because of the lack of safety precautions although it can be prevented before. However, the experiment itself sometimes is not entirely safe for replication in school laboratories or in homes. So that, parents and teachers should still encourage safety experiment in every science project.

In a science laboratory, students have to wear lab coats no matter how many fun and easy science experiments is. It is done to prevent them from spilling anything potentially dangerous on their clothes, and it also saves their clothes from getting stained. Lab coat has extra protection and extra protection layer to prevent any chemical touch the skin. Latex gloves are sometimes required. When doing experiments at home, encourage your children to also wear lab coats or at least kitchen aprons to protect their bodies.

Consider protective goggles as safety device that students should have. It looks like huge clear sunglasses and will protect the scientists’ eyes from getting splattered on or affected by any liquid or gas that may be emitted by the experiment or chemicals being worked with. They save them also from any shrapnel that might fly should the glassware in the laboratory begins to break.
To achieve fun and safe science experiments, make sure they read experiment instructions or articles. That helps students to prepare themselves for the activity. It also helps in setting up their laboratory stations, and get their materials all ready for the experiment. If they feel difficult to comprehend the instruction, you should help them. As long as one scientist completely focuses on their experiment, it’s bound to be safer.

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As many topics relate to science, long term study results two bad things. Students often feel boring and stressful. It can make them have no spirit because they cannot achieve the next topic easily. If the classroom activity is reading text books, of course it is difficult, tedious and boring. Nowadays, many school teachers are encouraged to apply exciting method to learn scientific principles. Physics, chemistry and biology will be more interesting sciences with games and experiments. It can be more challenging is there is new experience, fair, and ideas.

The science of static electricity can be learned by challenging your friends to see whose balloon will stick to the wall for the longest period of time before falling to the floor. Rubbing a balloon against your outfit will show the static electricity.
You can learn about your sense of touch, taste and smell with another fascinating experiment by putting on blindfolds and trying to see if you can discern juices, fruits, and vegetables. It is a real challenge when you are competing against three or four friends to see if you can do better than they can. Another fun experiment is placing a glass over a lit candle and seeing how long it takes for your candle to go out compared to the three or four others that you are competing with. It shows fire needs oxygen to exist. Then, guessing whether the coin will come up heads or tails is a great challenge to help determine whether you or any of your playmates have extra-sensory perception.

Parents and teachers are always searching for methods to keep children away from the TV set with other forms of entertainment. These experiments and challenges are proven to be funnier than anything on TV. It can be played indoor or outdoor and be the students will learn a scientific fact with each game. Then, the materials needed to play are affordable and even no cost since those items usually found easily around the house.