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Parkway School District High School Science Upgrades

By James Biehle | August 19th, 2009

Parkway School District High School Science Upgrades
PARKWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT, St. Louis County, MO
Scope: Science facility consulting and peer review of proposed renovations and additions to Parkway Central, Parkway West and Parkway South High Schools. Projects include gut renovations and additions to provide flexible science lab/classrooms and prep and storage spaces for inquiry-based science education.
Credit: Parsons [...]

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Battle Creek Area Math & Science Center

By James Biehle | August 19th, 2009

Science facility consulting and planning for relocation of multidistrict math and science magnet center. Facilities will include general and analytical chemistry lab/classrooms, general biology and biotechnology lab/classrooms with green house, physics lab/classrooms, an engineering suite and associated prep and storage spaces and student project spaces. The project is to be located within a former cereal [...]

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Indianapolis “Met” High School Science Addition

By James Biehle | August 19th, 2009

Indianapolis “Met” High School Science Addition
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF INDIANAPOLIS, Indianapolis, IN
Scope: Science lab consulting and planning for an addition to inner city charter high school, one of the “Big Picture Schools.” Project includes two flexible science lab/classrooms, a shared prep area, a student science project space, a distance learning classroom, a weather and seismic activities [...]

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Science & Technology Magnet High School of SE Connecticut

By James Biehle | November 26th, 2008

Planning and design of 250 student, regional high school with a science and technology focus.

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Science in Structure (school buildings teach science)

By James Biehle | May 1st, 2006

Science learning does not have to stop at the classroom door. A well-designed project takes as many opportunities as possible to give students additional scientific stimulation.

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Science Facilities

By James Biehle | August 16th, 2002

In the early 1990s, many middle and high schools began converting their industrial arts shops into “tech labs,” in which the power tools, sawdust and grease of the vocational programs were replaced by computers, student workstations and canned technology courseware. Students flocked to the new teach labs because they were unique environments within the school, [...]

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The Furniture of Science

By Michael Fickes | January 17th, 2001

Changes in the way teachers teach science have given rise to a new generation of designs for science classrooms and new approaches to furnishing those classrooms.
An increasing preference for hands-on science instruction has created the need for science laboratories in middle schools, as well as K-5 classrooms.
While the lower grades have begun to employ more [...]

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Six Science Labs for the 21st Century

By James Biehle | November 1st, 1995

“America will rank first in science and mathematics by the year 2000.”
These lofty-sounding words are part of Goals 2000, the federal Educate America Act. The turn of the century is fast approaching, but we’ve barely made a start in responding to this mandate. Though science supervisors, district officials and architects are scrambling to create better [...]

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