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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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The Importance of Planning School Science Facilities

By James Biehle | August 5th, 2008

Science is a hands-on subject in which students experience science by carrying out investigations. Generally these investigations require equipment and materials to be set up before a class starts and taken down when the class ends. Planners should determine the appropriate cost of new or renovated science facilities before budgets are set as their costs [...]

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What You Don’t See Can Hurt You

By James Biehle | May 17th, 2008

A critical space for safe science education is often undersized or poorly designed in today’s new schools: the prep and storage space.
A guide to planning adequate and safe science prep and storage spaces.
Central Prep & Storage Room
While more and more science teaching spaces are designed following the recommendations of the NSTA Guide to Planning School [...]

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Science Space

By James Biehle | May 16th, 2004

On several recent projects I’ve had the opportunity to review ed specs prepared by several well-respected educational facilities consultants and have noted that spaces proposed for science education are often inadequate, incomplete and ill-defined. Since science learning space is unlike other classroom space, both in terms of area and cost, such program inadequacies hamper the [...]

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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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The Science Resource Area in the State-of-the-Art High School

By James Biehle | October 1st, 2000

It appears that science education is moving more and more toward individual and small-group, hands-on projects and away from the “sage on the stage” lecture and “one size fits all” laboratory projects. The Thomas Haney Centre in Maple Ridge, British Columbia (Canada) operates on Individual study plans for each student, requiring that a student demonstrate [...]

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Science Facilities by Design

By James Biehle | January 24th, 1999

Due to the basic nature of science, science classrooms and laboratories are among the most hazardous instructional areas in the school environment, so safety for those who will be using the facilities should be a prominent concern for facility planners. The planning team should give specific attention not only to the design of the facilities but also to the establishment of emergency procedures.

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High School Science Resource Area

By James Biehle | October 1st, 1998

Fixed, designated-subject science labs may become dinosaurs. Perhaps a large, flexible student project space, somewhat like the example at South Carroll High School in Carroll County, MD could be combined with a number of other support spaces to provide the appropriate learning environment for science.

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