Template & Community Builder: My Lab Bench
Week 1 Community Builder: Part 1 - My Lab Bench
What it is: 1 student slide of 3 things on their lab "bench" that represent their science identity + prewriting
Suggested use:
1. Distribute pre-writing Doc: pre-writing document asking about the role of science in their lives and their experiences
2. Brainstorm answers for the first 3 (I used PollEverywhere).
3. Give feedback on Doc, assign slides & teach how to insert images. (I use Alice Keeler’s Pull 1x1 Tables in Docs to Sheets to get responses & push feedback.)
4. Distribute Forms where students describe and explain how each object relates to their prewriting answers.
5. Combine into final community slide deck of a research lab with multiple lab benches. Assign 3 to comment on.
Templates (at end so you can manipulate at your leisure) included. Now includes tutorial in slides for exporting as JPEG, and link to a great resource for researching different scientists: Lancaster’s Diverse Scientists Database.
Now with Part 2!
The end of my "Build your Lab Bench" Slide activity, I ask students to redress the legacy of normative white supremacy in science today by researching and making a poster for themselves of a scientist who can inspire them throughout the year. I include the guiding research doc (they fill out the 1x1 tables & I push feedback through via a Sheets script). I have yet to make the tutorial for building a poster in Canva. (I'm thinking it might be too much app load for my students this early.)
Slide sources from #IamAScientist and Remezcla. Guided research Doc instead of Form so teacher can give multiple feedback drafts and connect w/ student. Doc links to Slides, A. Lancaster’s Diverse Scientists Database, and Spotlight on Scientists.
Summary: Sequence for thinking is:
Brainstorming survey on PollEverywhere: students use answers to help them complete first questions
what does a scientist look like,
who does science,
where is science done,
Independent work after class mtg:
science's role in my life & the world,
“build” my lab bench with 3 objects representing my science identity,
research different scientists and consider which courses they could be taught in,
select a specific scientist and make a poster about it to put in your lab bench
send in jpeg of lab bench slide and explanations of each object via google forms.
Final class product: Slide deck w/ slides of all the student lab benches.
Feel free to use, adapt, distribute without charge.
Acknowledgments
David Barrios via SFUSD's 2020 Launch unit
Amber Lancaster
#IAmAScientist at Harvard
Remezcla