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: $200 (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.