Lab Setup

Fill in your inquiry-based lab setup. LabAgent will guide students according to this setup.

📋 This is an example Lab Setup opened as an editable copy. Saving will create a new Lab Setup in your library — the original example stays unchanged.
🛠 Admin mode — saving will publish this as an example Lab Setup that teachers can open, customize, and save as their own copy.
⭐ Promoting a teacher Lab Setup — review the title & description, then save to publish it as a clean example. The original teacher Lab Setup stays unchanged.
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Lesson Information
Title, student level, and general description

LabAgent will calibrate language and depth for this level.

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Simulation for this Lesson
Pick or add the simulation once — it’s linked to the Lab Setup, pinned in the student library, and used for metadata

The linked simulation above is used automatically. You can optionally add a description and/or a screenshot below — 💡 the more sources you provide, the more accurate the metadata will be.

📝 Your Description (optional)
🖼 Screenshot (optional)
📋 Paste (Ctrl+V) or click to upload image
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NGSS Standards
Select Performance Expectations → then DCIs → then Crosscutting Concepts
1 Performance Expectations choose one or more
2 Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI) suggested from your PEs
3 Crosscutting Concepts suggested from your PEs + DCIs
🔬 Science & Engineering Practices (SEPs)
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Learning Objectives
What students will be able to do — AI aligns these to your selected PE · DCI · CC

💡 Uses grade level + simulation metadata to generate Bloom's Taxonomy-aligned objectives

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Research Type
What kind of investigation will students conduct?
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LabAgent Tutoring Scaffold
Step-by-step behavioral instructions for the AI tutor — what to ask, scaffold, and look for at each inquiry stage
💡 These steps are LabAgent's private instructions. Each step tells the AI what questions to ask, what scaffolding to provide, and when to advance to the next stage. Students never see these.
🎚 Feedback Quality — how freely LabAgent scaffolds answers
🎯 Direct Answer 💬 Pure Socratic
Direct Mostly Direct Balanced Mostly Socratic Pure Socratic
Inquiry Stage LabAgent Instructions — what to ask, scaffold, and look for ✓ Expected Correct Response — what a full correct student answer looks like

💡 Pick a standard stage from the list or type your own custom stage name — any stage you add here shows up in the student's lab notebook.

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Student Artifacts
Data table, graphs and written observations — and the stage they appear in
Do you want students to create a table? built in
💡 Columns = data columns only. The first "Trial #" column is added automatically — do not count it. You can define more than one table.
Do you want students to draw a graph? drawn in
Define one or more graphs students should draw. Each graph can use a different chart type.
Do you want students to write observations? written in
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Data Analysis Questions
Each question has an expected correct answer — student answers are checked against it

💡 Add one card per question. The Expected Correct Answer is used only by LabAgent to check the student's answer — it is never shown to students.

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Student Difficulties & Scaffolding
Common misconceptions — LabAgent scaffolds (never corrects) when it detects these
Common Difficulty / Misconception Scaffolding Response (guiding question or hint)

💡 LabAgent uses your hints to scaffold — never directly corrects.

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Special Instructions for LabAgent
Custom behavior rules — highest priority

💡 These override all default AI behavior — tone, restrictions, pedagogical rules.

SIM EVENTS0
👁 Student Preview — this is how students will see this Lab Setup (not activated).
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📓Lab
Notebook
Start here
📓 My Lab Notebook
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Click your lesson below to open it

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LabAgent
⚡ Focus mode — notebook and tutor hidden

📘 My Active Lesson

This is the lesson your teacher set for today.