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A Five-Step Approach to Planning for Technology in New Science Spaces

By James Biehle | September 12th, 2006

Rapid technological advances such as these present a challenge to those renovating or building new classroom spaces. Anything we plan today may be obsolete in the one and a half to two years that it generally takes to get a building designed and built. Those involved with designing the space must know what technology is available, but more importantly, what technology will be available.

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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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Three Keys for Selecting K-12 Science Furniture and Equipment

By James Biehle | January 9th, 2005

The National Science Education Standards describe a science curriculum that is much more inquiry-based and hands-on than the science education many of received in school. Providing K-12 science-learning facilities that adapt themselves to a safe, inquiry-based program requires significant amounts of flexible space.
School science space is expensive. Careful planning can save money, provide space that [...]

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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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What Goes Around, Comes Around

By James Biehle | August 1st, 2002

In the early 1990′s many middle and high schools
Typical Tech Lab
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 work stations, and canned technology courseware. This was based on the rationalization that, since America is moving from an [...]

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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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Planning the Middle School Science Classroom

By James Biehle | January 1st, 2000

A significant portion of the middle school science curriculum should be inquiry based, and the facilities provided to serve this curriculum must support this approach.

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Q&A With James Biehle

By Eric Butterfield | November 1st, 1999

If you go solely on the basis of all the schools that a particular architectural firm has done, then you don’t know whether that particular architectural firm has designed good new science facilities or whether personalitywise they can work with the people in the school district. There are a number of almost equally valid issues that he school district ought to look at.

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Designing High School Science Facilities

By James Biehle | September 9th, 1999

A major principle of good science facilities planning is to avoid building for a single curricular model. Since continued change in educational trends is inevitable, any plans for science space should allow as much flexibility as possible to avoid the expense and considerable inconvenience of reconfiguring the space later.
Traditionally, the high school program, served [...]

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  An extremely important article on school science lab safety is Dr. Kenneth Roy’s “Safer Science” column in the October 2010 issue of The Science Teacher entitled: “‘Chemicals of Interest’ and More.” The column discusses a list of 330 chemicals, some of which are common to school science labs, which are of concern to the [...]
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- Watch Your Waste
  College and university science programs generate hazardous waste that must be dealt with and disposed of in accordance with state and federal regulations. During a recent renovation and addition project for the State University of New York at Plattsburgh (SUNY Plattsburgh), James Biehle was contracted to analyze existing regulations, research best practices at similar institutions, [...]
- Safe Science and Small Learning Communities
  Safe Science and Small Learning Communities Schools that are designed to serve students in small learning communities, or pods, can provide safer science areas and save considerable costs, both initially and in the future, by centralizing those facilities. And, most students and faculty seem to prefer this type of arrangement. This article, from the May [...]

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