Learn about and assess vital signs as an indicator of overall health as you assume professional roles found throughout a medical setting.
Mobile MedLab
For Grades 6-12
- 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
- Gain a greater understanding of medicine, physiology and anatomy
- Learn how personal choices impact community health issues
- Gain a greater understanding of, and increased interest in, a range of health and science careers that impact community and individual health
- Feel empowered to take initiative in improving personal, family and/or community health
- Work collaboratively with peers
- Communicate using terminology/vocabulary accurately. Analyze test results, develop a diagnosis and suggest treatment for illness
- Actively engage in inquiry-based, hands-on science investigation
Career pathways we will explore
- Medical/clinical laboratory technician
- Medical doctor
- Nurse
- Physician assistant/associate
Next Generation Science Standards
All of 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
- Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Constructing explanations
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information
Crosscutting Concepts
- Patterns
- Cause and effect
- Structure and function
- Systems and system models
- Stability and change
Disciplinary Core Ideas
- Middle School LS 1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
- Middle School LS1.A: Structure and Function
- Middle School LS1.B: Growth and Development of Organisms
- Middle School ETS2: Links among engineering, technology science and society
- High School LS 1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
- High School LS1.A: Structure and Function
- High School LS 3: Heredity: inheritance and variation of traits
- High School ETS2: Links among engineering, technology science and society
