How Do Scientific Equipment Help Students Achieve Academic Excellence?

There are many ways hands-on activities can help middle school students with their learning’s! First of all, using equipment in class can help stimulate one’s brain. Instead of simply reading out of a seemingly boring textbook, students can now challenge themselves to higher academic levels by exciting their minds and by looking forward to new classes. These activities in science help students strive for excellence throughout their classes. Secondly, using equipment in class can help students with developing both physical and mental skills. For example: When tearing a triple beam balance, students are able t strengthen their eye coordination by noticing if the scale is set to zero. Thirdly, these activities can help students be more prepared for problems involving mixtures and pure substances in the future, even if the problem is small. For example: For breakfast one day you want to make a smoothie with water, but are worried that your smoothie powder will not make a homogeneous mixture, and instead will have lots of different properties! You could think back to experiments that were previously conducted and have the knowledge to identify whether the powder is soluble in the solute water. What if the powder has very large individual particles and appears to have a rough texture? This could make the powder difficult to attract itself to the water! All of this previous knowledge comes in handy. Lastly and most importantly, these skills that the students have developed can be applied to all different subjects throughout their academic career and follow through with them throughout their lives as well. To truly achieve academic excellence, one must be able make connections with previous knowledge to new knowledge. By having the ability to conduct experiments with scientific equipment, students are able to not only develop skills like problem solving and the ability to work as a team, but can take those skills and use them towards the future.

Students across the district should be very grateful for the opportunity to create a better academic future!

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