Each station not only offers a unique opportunity to test your students’ knowledge (offer an opinion, answer questions based on a video or reading, draw, etc.) but also provides a fantastic learning opportunity where your kids are learning through assessment. Each station comes with a description card while some also contain more detailed instructions, a reading, questions to answer, etc. Students are equipped with a recording sheet (passport) to write their answers. There is almost no prep for you. Simply print the cards, lay them out around the room and you’re all set. An answer key is also provided where applicable.
No prep, no formatting, no issues. Simply download, print (or upload to your class site) and you’re all set.
How do the Lab Stations work?
Each station is specially designed to be a unique complement to the material while at the same time, provide a valuable learning experience. Below is an overview of how each station works. In your activity, each will be tailored to the specific content.
Station 1: Get Hands-On – using their creative skills, students are required to draw or build.
Station 2: Research – using a classroom computer or their own device, students must research a specific question/issue surrounding the topic.
Station 3: Explain yourself – students write down an opinion to a question in paragraph form.
Station 4: Rest Station – students can use this time to catch up on work they didn’t have time to complete at a previous station or prepare themselves for an upcoming one.
Station 5 – Applicability reading – students read a short passage from an article, website, etc. which directly connects the classroom content to a real-life application.
Station 6: Test your knowledge – students answer 5 multiple choice questions than provide a written explanation for how/why they came to their conclusions.
Station 7: Learn from the expert – using a classroom computer or their own device, students must watch a short video clip and answer the associated questions. They may stop, rewind and restart as often as they like during the time frame.
Station 8 – Rest Station.
Station 9: Become the question master – Students must create 2 multiple-choice questions, 2 true/false questions and 1 short answer question. Students must also supply the answers.
Here are the lab station activities that I currently have available
Acceleration – Lab Station Activity
Acid-Base Neutralization Chemistry – Lab Station Activity
Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors – Lab Station Activity
Atomic Model, Structure and Notation – Lab Station Activity
Atomic Theory, Structure and Isotopes – Lab Station Activity
Balancing Chemical Reactions – Lab Station Activity
Biodiversity and Invasive Species – Lab Station Activity
Calculating Average Speed, Velocity, and Displacement – Lab Station Activity
Cancer Volume II – Lab Station Activity
Carbon and Water Cycle – Lab Station Activity
Cell Membrane and Transport – Lab Station Activity
Cells and The Cell Theory – Lab Station Activity
Cellular Respiration – Lab Station Activity
Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis – Lab Station Activity
Chemical Reactions and Balancing – Lab Station Activity
Circulatory System – Lab Station Activity
Classification of Living Things – Lab Station Activity
Climate Change – Lab Station Activity
Cloud Types – Lab Station Activity
Current Electricity and Circuit Diagrams – Lab Station Activity
Density and Buoyancy – Lab Station Activity
Dopper Effect – Lab Station Activity
DNA Manipulation and GMOs – Lab Station Activity
DNA, Genes, Chromosomes, and Alleles – Lab Station Activity
Earths Seasons Why do they occur – Lab Station Activity
Eclipse – Lab Station Activity
Ecological Succession – Lab Station Activity
Ecosystems – Lab Station Activity
Electricity Production – Lab Station Activity
Energy and its forms – Lab Station Activity
Energy Flow In Ecosystems – Lab Station Activity
Friction – Lab Station Activity
Genetic Disorders – Lab Station Activity
Genetic Material – Lab Station Activity
Genotype and Phenotype – Lab Station Activity
The Human Eye – Lab Station Activity
Hearing and the Human Ear – Lab Station Activity
How Planes Fly – Lab Station Activity
Interactions within ecosystems – Lab Station Activity
Kinetic and Gravitational Potential Energy – Lab Station Activity
Life and Death of Stars – Lab Station Activity
Life In Space – Lab Station Activity
Light Optics and The Production of Light – Lab Station Activity
Magnetic Fields – Lab Station Activity
Mass, Volume, Density, & Buoyancy – Lab Station Activity
Meiosis – Lab Station Activity
Mitosis and the Cell Cycle – Lab Station Activity
Molecular and Ionic Compounds – Lab Station Activity
Mole and Avogadro’s Number – Lab Station Activity
Mutations – Lab Station Activity
Natural Disasters – Lab Station Activity
Nervous System – Lab Station Activity
Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion – Lab Station Activity
One and Two Dimensional Motion – Lab Station Activity
Our Solar System – Lab Station Activity
Particle Theory and Matter Classification – Lab Station Activity
Periodic Table – Lab Station Activity
Photosynthesis – Lab Station Activity
Physical and Behavioral Adaptations – Lab Station Activity
Physical and Chemical Properties – Lab Station Activity
Plant Sexual and Asexual Reproduction – Lab Station Activity
Plate Tectonics – Lab Station Activity
Proteins and Nucleic Acids – Lab Station Activity
Pure Substances and Mixtures – Lab Station Activity
Refraction – Lab Station Activity
Renewable Energy – Lab Station Activity
Respiratory System – Lab Station Activity
Reproductive Technologies – Lab Station Activity
Rock Cycle – Lab Station Activity
Scientific Method and Science Skills – Lab Station Activity
Single and Double Displacement Reactions – Lab Station Activity
Solutions and Mechanical Mixtures – Lab Station Activity
Sound, Sound Energy, and Speed – Lab Station Activity
Static Electricity – Lab Station Activity
Synthesis, Decomposition, and Combustion – Lab Station Activity
Thermoregulation – Lab Station Activity
Transcription and Translation – Lab Station Activity
Types of Bonds – Lab Station Activity
Work and Energy – Lab Station Activity
These station cards are meant to be used as a lab activity but can also be utilized in a review task before a test or a quiz. Used either way, your students will love it! I know mine do and I’m telling you from first-hand experience as I’ve used this activity in my own class.