Laboratory Equipment for High School Work in Physical Geography

Laboratory equipment--where are the tools to do the work?

The call for appropriate technology in medical laboratory sciences, especially for equipment, is becoming widespread and urgent. In developed countries new technology has led to a proliferation of complex tools and a tendency to overinvestigate patients. Such tools have been introduced more in response to demand than need, with the tacit help of manufacturers. For many health authorities this c...

Remote Work System for High School Students

PEBBLES (Providing Education By Bringing Learning Environments to Students) is a videoconferencing system which combines traditional videoconferencing equipment with simple robotics. It allows elementary school aged children who are unable to attend school because of hospitalization or other reasons to establish a presence in their classroom with a remotely controlled videoconferencing robot. E...

Progress in Physical Geography

Teachers’ aims of laboratory work in secondary school in Sweden

Introduction Laboratory work and practical work are common and significant components of science education. Teachers are expected by tradition, culture and curriculum (e.g. Boud, Dunn and Hegarty-Hazel, 1989; Lunetta, 1998; Skolverket, 1998) to involve labwork as a part of science education. Swedish National Curriculum (Skolverket, 1998) renders objectives involving for example development of s...

Progress in Physical Geography