TY - JOUR AU - Wright, Sue PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A SERIES OF LAB ASSIGNMENTS JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/a-series-of-lab-assignments SP - AB - The following are a set of six lab assignments. I use them as a series (one assigned each week for the first six weeks), but any of them could be used alone. Most are short and do not require a lot of research time on the part of the student. Since these labs are intended to get students to think critically and reflectively about childhood and children’s issues, I encourage students to work together, although I require that they write-up their labs individually. I find these assignments to be a very effective springboard for class discussions. The labs can also serve as an introduction to a more involved project. For instance, I use Lab #3: Analyzing a Childhood Event as an introduction to the midterm paper and Lab #4: Protection of Child Subjects as a way to get students thinking about their final project. ER -