Helping Students Prepare for Labs

Sage Kemmerlin teaches earth science and noticed that her students were coming to labs unprepared to do the hands on work.  Despite opening the module a week in advance, students were ignoring or merely skimming the information so were not able to identify the necessary vocabulary or address the upcoming work.  This meant that she had to spend valuable lab time going over the material rather than actually getting into the work. 

To help combat this shortfall, Sage decided to adapt her materials to help better engage her students by breaking up the material into shorter, easier to read and understand sections, providing a list of important vocabulary words for the upcoming lab and adding "self-check prompts" so students could verify that they understood what they had read.

To learn more about her very cool project, check out her artifact: