Bilingual Science Lab Guide
This 2-part packet supports 7th-grade English learners in completing a science lab. It includes glossaries, visuals, sentence frames, and starters in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese to aid participation and comprehension during the physical measurement portion of the lab.
“make this into two resources, 1 with the supports a level 1 bilingual spanish speaking student who is learning english can participate and keep up with the group, and the next resource a level 1 mandrain chinese student who uses pinyin and learning english can participate, contribute and answer the questions. It should take them 30-45 minutes to complete the physical measurements of the lab and answer the questions. Give both resources a wordbank glossary, visuals with words, sentence frames and sentence starters with a wordbank the students can use to answer the questions. Remove the calcualtions from both resources”
Teacher Guide & Tips
- Use this resource during a 30-45 minute science lab block.
- Discussion question: How do the visual aids and sentence frames help you understand the lab instructions?
- Scaffold for struggling readers: Encourage students to use the word banks and visuals to identify key vocabulary before starting the lab.
- Extension for advanced students: Have students write an additional sentence explaining one of the measurements in their own words.
What is Diffit?
Teachers use Diffit to get quality materials for their unique classrooms. Adjust difficulty, add scaffolds, or change the topic to get started.
Try Diffit for free“make this into two resources, 1 with the supports a level 1 bilingual spanish speaking student who is learning english can participate and keep up with the group, and the next resource a level 1 mandrain chinese student who uses pinyin and learning english can participate, contribute and answer the questions. It should take them 30-45 minutes to complete the physical measurements of the lab and answer the questions. Give both resources a wordbank glossary, visuals with words, sentence frames and sentence starters with a wordbank the students can use to answer the questions. Remove the calcualtions from both resources”
Teacher Guide & Tips
- Use this resource during a 30-45 minute science lab block.
- Discussion question: How do the visual aids and sentence frames help you understand the lab instructions?
- Scaffold for struggling readers: Encourage students to use the word banks and visuals to identify key vocabulary before starting the lab.
- Extension for advanced students: Have students write an additional sentence explaining one of the measurements in their own words.
Bilingual Science Lab Guide
This 2-part packet supports 7th-grade English learners in completing a science lab. It includes glossaries, visuals, sentence frames, and starters in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese to aid participation and comprehension during the physical measurement portion of the lab.
What is Diffit?
Teachers use Diffit to get quality materials for their unique classrooms. Adjust difficulty, add scaffolds, or change the topic to get started.
Try Diffit for free