Students will make observations and actively participate in hands-on chemistry experiments that produce visible evidence of chemical reactions.
Mobile Chem Lab:
For Grades 4-8
- Location: We travel to you!
- Capacity: 30 students
- Duration: 45–60 minutes
- Cost: $280 (travel fees apply outside of Chicago)
- Mobile Labs are offered between 8 a.m. and noon and/or between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Lab goals
During every session we aim to have students reach understanding and have fun along the way!
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.
Career pathways we will explore
- Chemist
- Pharmacist
- Chemical technician
- Firefighter
- Chef/cook
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
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.7, 4.10
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.7, 5.10
Next Generation Science Standards
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
