LABsent | Lab Aids

LABsent | a solution for absent students

You’re doing all the right things - your students are engaged and exploring meaningful phenomena on the regular, you provide frequent opportunities for students to use science and engineering practices, and your classroom is set up to facilitate group collaboration and communication. These are all wonderful for student learning - but when a student is absent, it’s truly a challenge as they’ve missed meaningful experiences in class and it’s a burden for the teacher to provide a quality substitute lesson.

For our middle school, high school biology and high school earth science programs, Lab-Aids developed LABsent for students who miss activities in the classroom, but can now easily make up the work without requiring teachers to give up prep or after-school time to supervise.

The LABsent packet mirrors the lesson done in class, including questions asked and data collected. Absent students are asked to complete the portion(s) of the activities that they missed, allowing them to return to class ready to move forward with their classmates.

If needed, video links are provided so that the student can see the lab taking place. These have been carefully developed so that no answers are given, rather, absent students collect data from the video in order to help them make their own analysis and conclusion.

Take a look at a LABsent

Activities for every middle school and high school Biology lesson have been modified for a student away from the classroom. Students access the student sheets and, when appropriate, videos so that they can collect and analyze the data and return to their group caught up and ready to move on.

See an example from middle school

See an example from high school Biology

LABsent packages may not need to be completed in their entirety as most SEPUP activities take more than one class period to complete. If a student is only absent one day, the teacher may need to assign only certain portions of the LABsent packet. Long-Term absences may require completion of several packets.

View a LABsent Package

SEPUP™ Issues and Science Third Edition | Designed for the NGSS

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Remote Learning Support

SEPUP™ Science and Global Issues: Biology

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Shannon O'Dell - Albert Middle School