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What Is Laboratory Method of Teaching Science

The laboratory method of teaching science involves students conducting their own experiments under the supervision of a teacher. It is considered an important method for teaching science. In this method, students perform experiments in a well-equipped laboratory and make their own observations and conclusions. The teacher provides guidance and ensures safety. There are different categories of the laboratory method, including inductive, where students form their own concepts, and verification, where teachers demonstrate concepts for students. Careful planning of laboratory activities is important for effective use of this method.

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What Is Laboratory Method of Teaching Science

The laboratory method of teaching science involves students conducting their own experiments under the supervision of a teacher. It is considered an important method for teaching science. In this method, students perform experiments in a well-equipped laboratory and make their own observations and conclusions. The teacher provides guidance and ensures safety. There are different categories of the laboratory method, including inductive, where students form their own concepts, and verification, where teachers demonstrate concepts for students. Careful planning of laboratory activities is important for effective use of this method.

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Laboratory Method of Teaching Science


This method is one of the important methods of teaching science and it forms
an integral part of effective science teaching. Under this method, teacher
encourages the students to derive various scientific laws and principles on
their own by getting personally involved in the experiment work.

For this, provision of a well- equipped laboratory is made by the teacher.


Along with such materials and facilities, proper instructions are being
provided by the teacher to the students by which they can carry out their
experiments self-independently. They carry on the experiments and record
the observation properly, on -the basis of which they infer their results or
draw conclusions.

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Entire work of the students is being supervised and controlled by the teacher,
as a result of which, probability of meeting with any kind of accident reduces
to considerable extent. Not only this, with this, students perform their work
without conducting any kind of mistake.
For science teaching, this method is used to maximum possible extent by the
teachers, as a result of which, some experts have divided it into various
categories, some of which are as follows:

Inductive Laboratory Method:


Through this method, students get the opportunity to form various scientific
concepts and principles on their own as in this method they have to take part
in various project functions.

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Verification and Deduction Method:


Through this method, teachers illustrate various scientific concepts,
principles and laws in front of students.

Technical Skill Oriented Method:


This method stresses to acquire various kinds of manipulative skills which
involve the development of hand-eye coordination.

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Science Process Oriented Method:


Through this method, teachers develop the science process skills of various
kinds in the students.

Thus, any form of laboratory method can be used by the teacher. But, it is
very necessary to plan and organise laboratory activities carefully. Pre-
laboratory instructions should be provided by the science teacher well in
advance of time as through it students will get prepared for taking active part
in laboratory activities.

Through such kind of pre-laboratory instructions, students will become


oriented to the objectives to be attained and the procedures or methods to be
adopted.

Necessary directions for actual laboratory work should be provided by the


teacher to the students, which should highlight the precautions which they are
required to be observed. Teacher can provide the instructions to the students
either in’ written form or orally. If these are provided in the written form,
then there should be proper provision of black-board and instruction cards in
the classroom, as without it, this function cannot be performed properly.
09/06/21

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