Mobile Learning Labs

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chemistry

Mobile Chem Lab

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.

Skyline Scope & Sequence connection

4th: Energy Conversions
5th: Modeling Matter
6th: Metabolism
7th: Chemical Reactions; Matter & Energy in Ecosystems
8th: Light Waves

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.