The Teaching Tank® and Science Lessons
The United States is in a science education crisis. Many believe that the country is at risk because the general population
is science illiterate. Science teachers have always been looking for better ways
to teach their science lessons and to make science experiments come alive in their
classrooms, but the proper tools to do so haven't been available. The
recent introduction of The Teaching Tank® is a significant step toward
changing that situation and enhancing the science curriculum. Teaching hands-on science lessons has just become much easier!
The impetus to write these
Teaching Tank Discovery Books© and to develop
The Teaching Tank®
into the most dynamic hands-on science teaching tool in the schools today stems from our
experience of over 30 years as classroom teachers, science coordinators,
and college professors. Through this experience, we have developed a
sense of what motivates and excites students and what science teachers want and
need in their hands-on science lessons and science experiments.
The Teaching Tank® and the Teaching Tank Discovery Books© are designed to stimulate students so that they can
experience what science is, by allowing them to do what a scientist does.
In addition The Teaching Tank® is easy to set up and easy to use. It
provides a creative, hands-on, way for students to see and learn science.
In the past, students were asked to view and perform science experiments in
small test tubes or beakers. These students were very limited to what they
could actually observe due to the size, shape, and visual distortion of those
small containers. Teachers were also having a very difficult time. They
were trying to perform science classroom demonstrations for the whole class using
these small containers. There was a need to develop a product that would
be larger in size, exhibit greater visual clarity, have good depth of vision,
and not use any more material than an ordinary beaker would hold. The Teaching Tank®
is that product. It is the perfect hands-on teaching tool for every
science curriculum. Students are able to explore more and receive immediate
feedback, literally "right before their eyes." The large double-sided
viewing surface gives students on both sides of the tank the same directly
observable science experiment.
Hands-on science lessons using the Teaching Tank Discovery Books© and The Teaching Tank® create a more
exciting, and very visual way, for teachers to demonstrate a science
principle or for students to actually complete the investigation
themselves safely. Teaching hands-on science lessons has just become much easier! This see-through tank is also easily cleaned and
ready for the next science experiment in minutes. A perfect fit into any school or home school science curriculum!
The Teaching Tank Discovery Books© will add excitement to your
science lessons, enhance student learning, integrate science disciplines,
motivate students, lessen student discipline problems, and stimulate creative
and critical thinking skills.
These hands-on science lessons are not only observational, they are specifically written
to foster student hands-on science experimentation. They are also written with an inquiry
approach to discovery learning, specifically stressing the science skills
of observing, measuring, calculating, interpreting data, formulating
hypotheses, controlling variables, and experimenting.
Each hands-on lesson contains clearly defined objectives, a materials list, a
reference diagram, a detailed procedure, thinking questions for students, and
teaching notes for clarification. A list of all materials used in Volume
One and where they can be obtained is given in the Appendix to Teaching Tank Discovery Book Volume One©.
These hands-on science lessons cover a variety of topics in the Life Sciences, Earth
Sciences, and Physical Sciences. In one science lesson you can germinate
seeds to grow plants and in another science lesson you could be determining
dew point, or in yet another science lesson you could form stalactites and stalagmites, all using the same great teaching aid: The Teaching Tank®. The Teaching Tank® is especially well suited to use with your home school science curriculum.
Discover how easy and fun doing hands-on science experiments can really be!
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