Following a request from Fulton School for the Deaf in Gillitts, MySchool has donated two Portable Science Laboratories which will enable the school to teach science more effectively, using the visual elements of the mobile lab as opposed to only relying on verbal teaching.
In all schools, seeing a science experiment is more beneficial to learners, but for a deaf learner visual is key and learners remember results much easier once they’ve seen them.
Named PortaLabs, these portable Natural Science laboratories have been developed with the quintile 1, 2 & 3 schools in mind, where resources such as electricity and other teaching aids are scarce. The Mini PortaLabs are compact, weighing only 22 kg, making them easy to carry from classroom to classroom or school to school.
It promotes team planning and team work, gets learners involved, captures their imagination and makes science lessons more meaningful, turning theory into practice.
Developed by Plastic Engineering Solutions (PES), each lab contains all the basic science lab needs for a school and includes test tubes, chemicals, a ray box, prisms, cell holders, electrical connections, bulbs, magnets, petri dishes, dissecting scissors, magnifying glasses and carbon rods.
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