• Grades: 4–8
• Capacity: 30 students
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Cost: $170
• Offered Tuesday through Friday at 10:15 and 11:45 a.m.

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

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

Lab goals

Students will:

• 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.