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Biehle to present workshop at CEFPI Midwest/Great Lakes Regional Conference

By James Biehle | April 8th, 2010

[ May 13, 2010; 1:15 pm to 3:15 pm. ] James Biehle and LaMoine Motz will present a workshop entitled “Planning Science Spaces for Project-Based Learning” at CEFPI’s Midwest/GreatLakes Regional Conference in Grand Rapids, MI on Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 1:15 PM.

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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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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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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 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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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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Tomorrow’s Science in Yesterday’s Buildings

By James Biehle | March 1st, 1997

Many high school science classrooms, including those recently designed and/or renovated, are not equipped for 21st-century science. Typical problems with existing facilities include insufficient space, overcrowded classrooms, designs that limit a teacher’s ability to supervise the class, no separation of lab and lecture functions, inadequate storage, no preparation space or individual/small group project space, no faculty office space, and violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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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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