Month: April 2024

In late 2020, science instructor Kelsey Gilcrease began preparations for her Spring 2021 remote classes at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. She had used many Carolina materials over the years and was very familiar and pleased with them, so she checked into the physiology kit and its viability for her 300-level Biomedical Physiology class. Although the kit was customizable with digital components, Gilcrease found the included labs were already a great fit for her course.

Science teachers around the world faced an incredible challenge in 2020: providing their students with meaningful laboratory learning at home. Dr. Emily Rumschlag Booms successfully tackled this challenge for her microbiology students at Northeastern Illinois University.

The spring of 2021 found Dr. Christina Ragain planning for a summer General Chemistry course at Southeast Missouri State University. The course was to be fully remote for the first time, so she also needed to develop a series of hands-on lab investigations for it. Like many science professors during the pandemic, Dr. Ragain was concerned about providing her students with meaningful lab investigations that they could successfully complete at home and that also match the course curriculum.