Laboratory Method

Laboratory Method At the heart of any science experience is the laboratory. What is a laboratory? It has been said that " Laboratory is really an attitude; an attitude demanding that you explore the unknown, invents explanations, and discovers whether or not your inventions are valid. Laboratory is exploring hypotheses can be formulated and subjecting those hypotheses to the most rigorous tests that can be devised. Laboratory is not a place; the halls, the grounds, home, and the bus all represent laboratory opportunities. Laboratory is observing, formulating, interpreting, testing, measuring, experimenting, predicting." Definition:  The laboratory method does not need to be reserved for the science classroom. Any curricular area in which hypotheses can be formulated and tested can utilize the laboratory method. After all, it is an “attitude” of exploration that any classroom can undertake. Keep in mind that laboratory exercises teach the professional skill...