Mobile MedLab: Air Quality and Respiratory Health
Run simulated lab tests, take vital signs and explore medical science to diagnose a patient.
MedLab: Air Quality and Respiratory Health
For grades 6 – 12
- Location: We travel to you!
- Capacity: 32 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
Provide a hands-on, student-led activity to spark interest in science and expose students to different career pathways.
Student outcomes
- Learn that one's health choices have direct effect on one's own health
- Learn how personal choices impact community health issues
- Understand the connection between individual health and community health
- Actively engage in hands-on, inquiry-based science investigation
- Share Learning Lab-generated thoughts, ideas and questions with peers and program facilitators
Skyline Scope & Sequence
- 7th: Chemical Reactions; Populations & Ecosystems
- 8th: Natural Selection
- HS Biology: Unit 1; Unit 2; Unit 3
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
- Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information
Crosscutting Concepts
- Cause and effect
- Structure and function
- Systems and system models
- Stability and change
- 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
