Choose a category below to view available labs. For questions or comments, please request Middle School labs at newmank@juniata.edu or 814-641-3562.
Chemistry
iPad Apps
Procedural Labs
Accuracy and Precision / Teacher Notes
Boyle's Law_Lab / Teacher Notes
Chromatography_Lab (Paper and Radial)/ Teacher Notes
Endothermic vs Exothermic Reaction_Lab / Teacher Notes
Flame Test_Lab / Teacher Notes
Isotopes of Pennies_Lab / Teacher Notes
Law of Conservation of Mass / Teacher Notes
M&M's® Half Life Simulation / Teacher Notes
Microdensity of Plastics_Lab / Teacher Notes
Mixtures and Compounds_Lab / Teacher Notes
Mystery Solutions / Teacher Notes
ph of Household_Lab / Teacher Notes
ph Testing_Lab / Teacher Notes
Red Cabbage_Lab / Teacher Notes
Resources and Activities
Issues, Evidence, and You: A Mystery Game
Molecular Motion Kit
Properties of Matter Experiment Books
Earth & Space Sciences
Astronomy
iPad Apps
Sun Viewer (NASA Space Weather Media Viewer)
Procedural Labs
Gas Emission Spectra / Teacher Notes
The Solar System: What is Your Universal Address?
Resources and Activities
Catastrophic Events Experiment Books
Parts of a Telescope
Geology
Procedural Labs
Earthquake Resistant Structures_Lab
GPS Finding Your Way_Lab / Teacher Notes
Fossils and Geological Time (Revised)/ Teacher Notes
Compass: Get Your Bearings_Lab
Plate Tectonics_Lab / Teacher Notes
Rocks ID_Lab / Minerals ID_Lab / Teacher Notes
Soil Erosion_Lab / Teacher Notes
Starlab Geology_Lab / Teacher Notes
Resources and Activities
Catastrophic Events Experiment Books
Drift Globes
Demo Kits:
Converging / Diverging Boundaries
Faults
Landform
Meteorology
Procedural Labs
Air Mass and Convection_Lab / Teacher Notes
Resources and Activities
Catastrophic Event Experiment Books
Is it Hot or Just Humid in Here?
Wireless Weather Station
Oceanography
Procedural Labs
Ocean Circulation Currents_Lab / Teacher Notes
Mapping the Seafloor_Clay Extension_Lab
Mapping the Ocean Floor / Teacher Notes Revised '11
Starlab Ocean Currents_Lab / Teacher Notes
Resources and Activities
Ocean Currents PowerPoint presentations (classroom/starlab)
Teaching Tanks
Environment and Ecology
Procedural Labs
The Berlese Funnel (Revised)/ Teacher Notes
Determining Soil Texture by Three Methods
Enviroscape Model with Topographical Maps
Kill-a-watt_Lab / Teacher Notes
Physical Properties of a Stream
Porosity of Soils_Lab / Teacher Notes
Stream in a Bucket_Lab / Teacher Notes
Watersheds with Topographical Maps
Whats the Dirt on Soil_Lab / Teacher Notes
Resources and Activities
Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
Exploring Groundwater
FOSS: Mono Lake Lab -- the elements of an ecosystem
Pennsylvania Trees and Forests / Teacher Notes New '11
Populations and Ecosystems
A Tree Tells Its Story / Teacher Notes New '11
Trouble in Fruitvale: pH testing
Life Science
Procedural Labs
Born Fighters_Lab / Teacher Notes
Bottle Aquarium_Lab / Teacher Notes
Comparing Plant and Animal Cells
Contagious Town Meeting_Lab / Teacher Notes
Effects of Chemicals on Daphnia_Lab / Teacher Notes
Finding the Optimal Salt Concentration For Hatching Brine Shrimp Revised '11
Insect Biodiversity
Internal Guests of Termites_Lab / Teacher Notes
Introduction to Microscopy with Microviewers
- Animal Mitosis
- Cell structure / Teacher Notes
- Cells of plants / Teacher Notes
- Cells of Your Body
- Chromosomes and Genes in Action
- The Five Kingdoms / Teacher Notes
- Life in a Pond / Teacher Notes
- Meiosis
Lactose Digestion_Lab /Teacher Notes Revised '09
Leaf Chromatography / Teacher Notes Revised '11
Light Intensity and Photosynthesis
Measuring Plant Transpiration_Lab / Teacher Notes
Mysterious Disease: Cholera Epidemic / Teachers Notes Revised '09
Natural Selection in Pastel Dragonflies
Natural Selection in Woolyboogers_Lab / Teacher Notes
Observing Water Transport in a Celery Stalk
PA Animal Tracks_Lab / Teacher Notes
Population Estimate by Random Sampling_Lab / Teacher Notes New 2008
Symmetry in Biology/ Teacher Notes Revised 2008
The Hand_Lab New 2008
Teeming with Life_Lab / Teacher Notes New 2008
Genetics: Turkey Trouble Generation I and II / Teacher Notes Revised 2008
Resources and Activities
Classification of Life
Digital Stereo Dissecting Microscopes
Flower Model Activity Set
Germination Activity Set
National Park Flash Card Lab
Roots Activity Set
Teaching Tanks
Visualize the Animal Cell
Visualize the Plant Cell
Physics
iPad Apps
Procedural Labs
Bell Jar Vacuum Pump / Teacher Notes
Conceptual Graphing of Speed and Acceleration
Light, Lenses,and Mirrors / Teacher Notes Revised '11
Magnetic Field / Teacher Notes
Measuring g of Free Fall Using the Picket Fence Method
Simple Circuit / Teacher Notes
Resources and Activities
2 L Bottle Rocket Launcher
Energy, Machines and Motion Unit Experiment Books (simple machines, pulley lab, building batteries, force of friction, do gasses have density)
K'Nex Intro to Bridges
Optics Bench Set
Pulley Demonstration
K'Nex Roller Coaster Science
Various Physics Demos