Verbal learners need detailed lab manuals with illustrations to achieve success in a biology course. Biology lab activities that rely on written instructions and drawings play to the strengths of verbal learners. These labs may include dissecting small animals, such as frogs, or animal organs, like a cow's eye. Viewing cells or tissues under the microscope and identifying the cells by comparing them to drawings are additional beneficial activities for verbal learners. These activities allow verbal learners to read the instructions and compare what they see in the activity to illustrations, rather than relying on the teacher's oral instructions.
Chemistry can be a difficult course for some verbal learners because many of the reactions rely on complex equations that are difficult to visualize in a lab setting. Verbal learners can benefit from studying written lab materials as well as the opportunity to try the experiments themselves rather than watch an instructor perform the experiment and describe it. In this way, the verbal learner can review the materials and see the equations that describe the reaction as she performs the experiment.
Geology tends to be a visual subject, which benefits verbal learners because they can see the concepts themselves and take notes that make sense to them rather than just relying on the oral lecture. Lab activities that benefit verbal learners include allowing the students to handle the rocks or minerals, studying them and taking notes, or allowing the students to study maps and drawings illustrating the concept of tectonic plates or sediment formation and answer questions about the maps.
Similar to chemistry, verbal learners benefit from performing the experiments or activities themselves while they read about the equations or processes underlying the phenomena. For example, in physics, allow the students to compare the length of metal wind chimes to the tone of the sounds they produce. For an activity in astronomy, allow the students to take home a star chart or lab manual and look for the stars or planets and observe their movements on their own.