• Grades: 7-12
• Capacity: 30 students
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Cost: $150
• 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
• Using mathematics and computational thinking
• Constructing explanations and designing solutions
• Engaging in argument from evidence
• Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information

Crosscutting Concepts:

• Patterns
• Cause and effect
• Systems and system models
• Structure and function
• Stability and change

Disciplinary Core Ideas:

Middle School
LS 1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
— LS1.A: Structure and Function
— LS1.B: Grown and Development of Organisms
ETS 2: Links among engineering, technology, science and society

High School
LS 1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
— LS1.A: Structure and Function
LS 3: Heredity: inheritance and Variation of Traits
ETS 2: Links among engineering, technology, science and society

Lab goals

Students will:

• Increase their understanding and knowledge of medical sciences and related career paths.
• Learn that one's health choices have direct effect on one's own health.
• Understand the connection between individual health and community health.
• Actively engage in hands-on, inquiry-based science investigation.
• Share Learning Lab-related thoughts, ideas and questions with peers and program facilitators.