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SCIENCE
Pōpolo: As a plant known for its medicinal properties, pōpolo reflects the traditional Hawaiian practice of observation and experimentation used to understand and apply natural remedies. These spaces are designed to function as places of inquiry, where haumāna observe, analyze, and explore using both modern tools and traditional knowledge to better understand and respond to the world around them.
Overview
Overview
High school science rooms designed with flexibility and active learning in mind, support collaborative, inquiry-based instruction that reflects how science is practiced in the real world. Rather than a traditional departmental layout, these spaces follow an academy model, allowing science classrooms to be grouped with related disciplines to encourage cross-curricular connections. Eight Science Classroom/Labs are embedded with the Learning Communities while an additional two Science Classroom/Labs can be grouped to CTE or STEM focused spaces.
Curriculum includes both hands-on and technology-based science. Interactive display boards are utilized, in addition to lab work, since not all lab work will take place at the peninsula stations. Movable furniture increases flexibility to create designated lab zones separate from instructional or collaborative desk work, enabling hands-on in-depth, multi-day experimentation. Efficiency and professional collaboration is promoted through shared prep rooms.
This integrated yet deep learning approach promotes relevance and authenticity by helping students see meaningful links between scientific concepts and real-world applications across disciplines.
Space Descriptions
Space Descriptions
5.01 Science Classroom / Lab
Movable, with locking casters, four-person science tables at countertop height create peninsula lab stations with tables
Stools to match science table height and promote usage from either sitting or standing position
Provide perimeter lab stations with gas, electricity and larger deep sinks (and sink covers) on two longer walls
Central classroom area should accommodate 8 two-person tables with 16 corresponding chairs (all faced towards the main teaching wall and demonstration table) for direct instruction or testing
Open area in the rear of classroom for potential non-lab work—independent or small group research, small group collaboration or direct instruction
Singular water shutoff for all sinks
Fume hood for designated Chemistry labs only
80 lb. hook for designated Physics classrooms
Space for safety equipment like goggles
Provide eyewash and emergency shower (not near exit doors)
Ensure daylighting into classrooms and incorporate operable windows when possible (especially important for Horticulture and Biology classes)
Consider secondary teaching wall at opposite of main teaching wall
Necessary cabinetry should be located in Prep Room. The cabinetry in Classroom/Lab should include lockable cabinets and minimal drawers to avoid collection of rubbish.
5.01A Science Prep Room (Shared)
Intended to be shared between two classrooms but dependent on design layout of spaces
Place for teachers to store materials, prep and clean up
Need refrigerator, large sink, countertop, and base cabinet
Large full-height open storage shelves for kits and bins of materials
Hazardous chemical storage cabinets
Master Charts
Master Charts
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