Designed to accompany Novare's Life Science, The Apprentice's Companion for Life Science is an exciting and valuable new combination of experiment book, lab journal, field manual, and commonplace book. Throughout the book, students are prompted to form hypotheses, take data, and revisit those hypotheses to assess, wherever possible, if they are supported by the data. Enhanced with images of art, poems, and quotes by respected scientists and naturalists, each chapter contains:
- multiple experiments and lab activities, some taking approximately 15 minutes and others occupying a class period or more
- experimental procedures
- space for sketches, graphs, and data tables
- room for writing down thoughts and interacting with questions
- commonplace space for writing down thoughts, ideas. and musings
An accompanying downloadable PDF of teacher's notes contains information about preparation, materials, and procedures. It also contains photos obtained during pilot runs of some experiments so that instructors unfamiliar with these experiments will know what to expect.
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