Latin School of Chicago

Upper school chemistry class. ��� This increasing focus on hands-on, investigative and cooperative learning calls for a very different classroom setting than the lecturer-centered science facilities ��� with neatly arranged single-person desks facing forward toward a podium and white board ��� that Latin upper school students have been working in up to now. The new space will be student-centered, geared to giving upper schoolers the tools to develop the problemsolving and critical thinking skills that they will need in a fast-changing science landscape. A Center for Science BIOLOGY LAB Walls throughout all the classrooms will be covered with glass surfaces on which students and faculty can write notes or draw diagrams so that all parts of the room can be used as learning spaces. There also will be a room dedicated to student research, where students can work on longer-term projects or independent studies, and classrooms for nonlab electives such as astronomy and the philosophy of science. Outside the classrooms, the science faculty���s goal was to create a feeling of a center: a space ��� The classrooms in the new science center will generally be flexible spaces that encourage and facilitate hands-on activities and group work. At the same time, the classrooms for each of the three main disciplines ��� physics, chemistry, and biology ��� are designed with the varying needs of the different subjects in mind. So physics will have the most open classroom to allow for numerous projects that involve robotics, catapults or projectiles. Chemistry, on the other hand, will have a set lab area designed in a propeller shape to allow teachers to closely monitor student work, lab partners to cooperate closely and each group to observe what other groups are doing. STUDENT LOUNGE BIOLOGY LAB INDEPENDENT RESEARCH STUDY LAB SCIENCE FACULTY OFFICES CHEMICAL PREP AND STORAGE STAIRWELL SCIENCE FORUM STAIRWELL 24 Latin Magazine

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