Skills Practice Lab

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Even though you have already taken science classes with lab work, you will find the two types of laboratory experiments in this book organized differently from those you have done before. The first type of lab is called a Skills Practice Lab. Each Skills Practice Lab helps you gain skills in lab techniques that you will use to solve a real problem presented in the second type of lab, which is called an Investigation. The Skills Practice Lab serves as a Technique Builder, and the Investigation is presented as an exercise in Problem Solving. 

The Skills Practice Labs provide step-by-step procedures for you to follow, encouraging you to make careful observations and interpretations as you progress through the lab session. Each Skills Practice Lab gives you an opportunity to practice and perfect a specific lab technique or concept that will be needed later in an Investigation. 

The Inquiry Labs differ from Skills Practice Labs because they do not provide step-by-step instructions. In each Inquiry Lab, you are required to develop your own procedure to solve a problem presented to your company by a client. You must decide how much money to spend on the project and what equipment to use. Although this may seem difficult. Inquiry Labs contain a number of clues about how to successfully solve the problem. 

Think about Skills Practice Labs you have done that used a similar technique or reaction. 

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