Lab 2

Aviation Biology

Mr. Joseph Estes

Basic Lab Rotation

Time frame: 3 class periods ( allow for review time before the evaluation on day three )

Objective: Provide practice of basic lab skills.

Materials: 6 student computers, with a multimedia encyclopedia program

6 microscopes with animal cell slides

6 microscopes with plant cell slides

6 student triple-beam balances with various items to measure

Quick lab of your choice to test a hypothesis (our students had to make

a paper airplane to meet certain flying characteristic criteria)

Internet site of your choice ( we use an electron microscope image web site)

Instructions: The students are briefed on the tasks that are to be performed at each

station. Instruction sheets for each station are also provided.

Arrange you room so that there are 6 work areas. The computers

are the sixth station.

Computers/station one: The students locate and record information on the lives of 2

Biologists, and /or inventors.

Balances/station two: The students determine the weight of several items of your choice.

Microscopes/station three: The students draw several different animal cells.

Microscopes/station four: The students draw several different plant cells.

Hypothesis station five: The students must make a paper air plane to carry an object

(Stick of gum) across the room. They must make adjustments

to the airplane in order to achieve their goal.

Internet/station six: We visit a site to see how a scanning electron microscope works.

At this site we draw several images.

Students rotate from station to station on 15 minute, timed intervals

Evaluation: On day three, I ask them 10 questions about their expriences, and findings.