Life Lab’s Language Acquisition and Science Education in Rural Schools (LASERS)  program showed the positive links between language development and hands-on science using the Life Lab Science curriculum.

This theme was recently revisited by the National Gardening Associations Kidsgardening.com newsletter.

Learn more about LASERS from these past posts:

• 1995 LASERS
• 2000 Monterey Bay Science Project

And from these documents:

• The LASERS Model
• English Language Learner Institutes
• Integrating Inquiry Science and Language Development for English Language Learners  Trish Stoddart, America Pinal, Marcia Latzke, Dana Canaday Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2002, 39(8), 1-25.
• Integrating Science and Language Instruction for English Language Learners. Falling Leaves, 9, 9-14.