LAB-AIDS® provides several useful tools to guide you and your students through the Issues and Life Science course:
Student Book
The Issues and Life Science Student Book guides investigations and provides related readings.
The Student Book uses a variety of approaches to make science accessible for all students. SEPUP’s integrated literacy strategies help students process new science content, develop their analytical skills, make connections between related concepts, and express their knowledge orally and in writing.
The built-in assessment system helps teacher’s identify students’ strengths and weaknesses from the beginning of the course. This allows them to adjust activities when needed so that all students get the best chance to build their knowledge and appreciation of science.
The LAB-AIDS Science Lab Notebook
The use of a science journal or notebook is strongly recommended for all science classes. A journal not only models the way scientists work but it helps to develop and reinforce students’ science learning and literacy skills.
The LAB-AIDS Science Lab Notebook was designed with “Best Practices” in mind. Each of the 160 LABLOG pages, has a 2-column design with GraphAnywhere, which allows data tables and graphs to be drawn in a fraction of the usual time, and plenty of room to record data, notes, and responses to questions. It is also three-hole punched to allow students to store the entire notebook, or individual completed pages, in their binder.
Complete Materials Package
All SEPUP materials packages are designed with teachers, students and environmental considerations in mind. Traditional laboratory style classrooms are not necessary to teach SEPUP.
Materials packages include most of the items needed for the activities. They support multiple classes – typically up to five classes of 32 students (160 total students) – before consumables need to be replaced. It’s important to note that materials are consumed at various rates; therefore, it will not be necessary to replace all consumable items every year. Exclusive to SEPUP programs are the molded tray liners that keep everything in place and easy to locate – even in a hurry.
Teacher's Edition
The SEPUP Core Curriculum Teacher’s Edition takes you through each activity in the Student Book and helps you see the development of concepts within the big picture of the units and the course you are teaching. It helps you set up the equipment from the kit, organize the classroom, conduct activities, and manage practical details, all of which enhance students’ learning environment.
The Teacher’s Edition is packaged as a series of loose-leaf binders that you can personalize with annotations, rearrangements, and insertions. The Teacher’s Edition provides full support for teaching the program. Additional support resources can also found in the Teacher’s Edition.
Teacher Resource
The Teacher Resource provides background and suggestions to increase the overall effectiveness of implementing the program across all levels of learners. Sections include: SEPUP’s Approach to Teaching and Learning, Differentiation Strategies for Diverse Learners, Literacy Strategies for Supporting Reading Comprehension and for Enhancing Students’ Writing and finally Comprehensive instruction on the SEPUP Assessment System.
eTeacher Resources (CD)
The Issues and Life Science eTeacher Resources includes both the Teacher's Edition and Teacher Resource as well as copies of all student sheets and transparencies on 1 CD. With every purchase of Issues and Life Science Teacher's Edition (IALS-2TE) (1) free copy will be included.
Books Online
Individual, classroom or district licenses can be purchased for access to our student books on-line. It features editable Word documents for each set of Activity Assessment Questions which allows students to e-mail their finished work back to the teacher. Microsoft Word® Tools provide strong support for diverse learners. The Spelling and Grammar Checker uses red and green underline squiggles representing spelling (red) and grammar (green) errors alerting students to potential errors. The thesaurus helps to refine writing as well as expose students to new vocabulary words. Students with poor spelling skills often have difficulty using a dictionary. This feature provides an instant definition for a highlighted word, eliminating the task of dictionary look-up.
Students can also use the Thesaurus to find the synonyms of words. All pages were created using Adobe Acrobat Reader. A great feature of the Adobe program is “The Read Aloud Function”. The program audibly reads the text, allowing the student to follow the reading on the page. You can speed up or slow down the program based on the student’s ability. This helps all students increase their vocabulary.
ExamView® Test Generating Software
ExamView® for Issues and Life Science makes it easier for educators to use your content to assess, track, and analyze student performance. Comprised of the Test Generator, Test Manager, and Test Player, ExamView® is the industry standard for paper, Internet, and LAN‐based question and test development.
Test Generator
Educators can create assessments, quizzes, study guides, and worksheets using multiple question formats, pictures, tables, graphs, charts, and other multimedia elements. Works exclusively with eInstruction’s CPS™ student response systems for real‐time results.
Test Manager
Educators collect results and generate comprehension reports in minutes. Test Manager also manages class rosters and automatically collects performance data from the school network to analyze student results and identify areas of concern.
Test Player
Gives students the ability to take tests and view study guides over the school network. ExamView® adds even more benefits to your content.
QuickTest Wizard
New tests can be created in a matter of minutes with easy step‐by‐step navigation. Simply select
the question banks and the number of questions and ExamView® does the rest.
Style Gallery
ExamView® tests can be easily formatted to match state or national standardized tests. Simply choose a layout based on predefined formats (e.g., TAKS, FCAT, GED, GMAT, NCLEX, etc.) and print a comprehensive answer sheet.
Multiple Question Formats
ExamView® supports 14 question formats. An ExamView® question can contain pictures, graphs, charts, tables, and other multimedia elements. You can create dynamic questions (algorithms) for any subject area which allow infinite customization of a question using mathematical definitions.
Student Activity Links
Activity 2
The Pellagra Story
Video on Pellagra - with closed captions
This video segment from A Science Odyssey profiles Dr. Joseph Goldberger
and his search for a cure for pellagra, a poorly understood disease that
ravaged the American South in the early 1900s. You may right-click on the above
link to save the video and view it in full screen. It is recommended that you have the latest version of QuickTime installed to properly view this video. This video is from PBS LearningMedia™.
Activity 33
From One to Another
Video
on Bubonic Plague - with closed captions
This video segment from A Science Odyssey recounts the tactics employed
by San Francisco’s health officials to prevent bubonic plague from reaching
America’s West Coast. You may right-click on the above link to save the video
and view it in full screen. It is recommended that you have the latest version of QuickTime installed to properly view this video. This video is from PBS LearningMedia™.
Activity 50
Fighting Back
Video on the Discovery of Penicillin - with closed captions
In this video segment from A Science Odyssey on PBS LearningMedia™, learn what led British researcher Alexander Fleming to the chance discovery of antibacterial properties in a mold extract he later named penicillin. It is recommended that you have the latest version of QuickTime installed to properly view this video.
Video on Producing Penicillin - with closed captions
In this video segment from A Science Odyssey on PBS LearningMedia™, learn about the team of scientists from Oxford University that conducted tests on penicillin, in addition to the mass production of this new drug. It is recommended that you have the latest version of QuickTime installed to properly view this video.
Activity 56
Joe's Dilema
Video - How Do Your Genes Fit? (youtube video, CD comes with your materials too)
Acclaimed video from the National Marfan Foundation that teaches teens about inheritance and genetic disorders and an appreciation for human diversity. Features teens participating in real-life discussions that are insightful, humorous, and emotional, and includes a simple, vivid discussion of genetics.
Teacher Activity Links
Activity 2: The Pellagra Story
Pellagra Video - with closed captions
This video segment from A Science Odyssey profiles Dr. Joseph Goldberger
and his search for a cure for pellagra, a poorly understood disease that
ravaged the American South in the early 1900s. You may right-click on the above link (no captions) to save the video and view it in full screen. It is recommended that you have the latest version of QuickTime installed to properly view this video. This video is from PBS LearningMedia™.
Activity 33: From One to Another
Bubonic Plague Video - with closed captions
This video segment from A Science Odyssey recounts the tactics employed
by San Francisco's health officials to prevent bubonic plague from reaching
America's West Coast. You may right-click on the above link to save the video
and view it in full screen. It is recommended that you have the latest version of QuickTime installed to properly view this video. This video is from PBS LearningMedia™.
Activity 50: Fighting Back
Video on the Discovery of Penicillin - with closed captions
In this video segment from A Science Odyssey on PBS LearningMedia™, learn what led British researcher Alexander Fleming to the chance discovery of antibacterial properties in a mold extract he later named penicillin. It is recommended that you have the latest version of QuickTime installed to properly view this video.
Video on Producing Penicillin - with closed captions
In this video segment from A Science Odyssey on PBS LearningMedia™, learn about the team of scientists from Oxford University that conducted tests on penicillin, in addition to the mass production of this new drug. It is recommended that you have the latest version of QuickTime installed to properly view this video.
Activity 56
Joe's Dilema
Video - How Do Your Genes Fit? (youtube video, CD comes with your materials too)
Acclaimed video from the National Marfan Foundation that teaches teens about inheritance and genetic disorders and an appreciation for human diversity. Features teens participating in real-life discussions that are insightful, humorous, and emotional, and includes a simple, vivid discussion of genetics.
