Conduct experiments and witness several different types of chemical reactions.
Colorful Chemistry:
For grades 4-8
- Location: Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
- Capacity: 32 students
- Duration: 45 minutes
- Cost: $240
- Offered Tuesday and Thursday at 10:15 and 11:45 a.m.
- This lab can be done concurrently. We can accommodate up to four groups per day (depending on availability).
Lab goals
Provide a hands-on, student-led activity to spark interest in science and expose students to different career pathways.
Student outcomes
- Increase their understanding of chemical reactions.
- Understand the connection between ideas explored and careers that involve chemistry.
- Actively engage in hands-on and inquiry-based science investigation.
- Share Learning Lab-generated thoughts/ideas/questions with peers and program facilitators.
- Observe chemical properties before and after a chemical reaction.
- Develop and test a hypothesis about what will occur during a chemical reaction.
Classroom connections
All of our Learning Labs are designed to integrate curriculum standards and connections into your classroom!
Skyline Scope & Sequence
- 4th: Energy Conversions
- 5th: Modeling Matter
- 6th: Metabolism
- 7th: Chemical Reactions; Matter & Energy in Ecosystems
- 8th: Light Waves
Common Core ELA/Literacy Standards
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1, 3.3, 3.7, 3.10 2, 5.4, 5.7, 5.10
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.7, 4.10
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1, 5.
Next Generation Science Standards
Our Learning Labs are designed to integrate curriculum standards and connections into your classroom!
Science and Engineering Practices:
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Developing and using models
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Analyzing and interpreting data
- Constructing explanations
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information
Crosscutting Concepts
- Patterns
- Cause and effect
- Systems and system models
- Energy and matter
- Stability and change
Disciplinary Core Ideas
- PS 1: Matter and its interactions
- PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter
- PS1.B: Chemical Reactions
- PS 3: Energy
- PS3.B: Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer
- PS3.D: Energy in Chemical Processes and Everyday Life
- ETS 2: Links among engineering, technology, science and society
