The Lab Bench: Science Education Unfiltered

Science isn't a vocabulary list. It's a way of thinking. So why are we still teaching it like one? The Lab Bench is hosted by Alyse, a teacher, researcher, and unapologetic advocate for real science education. Episodes alternate between the big picture ideas that drive the work and the practical classroom strategies that make it possible. NGSS, phenomenon-based learning, and the honest conversations the science education world needs to have. No scripts. No edits. Let's get to work.

The Lab Bench: Science Education Unfiltered is a general podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 2 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Same Labs, Different Order: Unit Planning with the NGSS

  Aug 16, 202616 minS1

  <p>You don't need to blow up your curriculum to teach differently. You need to change one thing: the order.</p><p>In this episode, Alyse walks through why the classic teach-then-lab sequence kills student curiosity, and what happens when you flip it. Using a real classroom example — a very sick newborn, a room full of student-doctors, and a catalase lab most biology teachers already run — she shows exactly how to turn a lab you already have into the thing that drives a whole unit (and your student's curiosity).</p><p>You'll walk away with four criteria for picking a phen...

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  I Left the Classroom. Here's Why I Came Back.

  Aug 2, 202622 minS1

  <p><b>Episode Summary</b></p><p>Less than a third of eighth graders in this country scored proficient on the most recent National Science Assessment. Interest in science dropped ten points in just five years. In this first episode of The Lab Bench, Alyse shares her origin story: the classroom she started in back in 2011, the years she spent writing cancer treatment guidelines alongside physicians who lived and breathed scientific thinking, and the classroom she came back to in 2020 that she barely recognized - and not just because of the pandemic. This isn't just a biography. It's the lens...

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  The Lab Bench: Science Education Unfiltered

  Season 1 Trailer

  Jul 5, 20263 minS1

  <p>Less than a third of eighth graders in the United States scored proficient on the most recent national science assessment. Interest in science dropped ten points in five years. Something is wrong, and it starts long before the pandemic.</p><p>I'm Alyse: high school science teacher, former cancer researcher, curriculum designer. After fifteen years in and out of the classroom, I'm done waiting for policy to catch up to what we already know works. This podcast is for science teachers who know something is broken and want to do something about it. Not eventually. Now.</p><p>No...

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