Southeast Kansas Education Service Center - Greenbush
Learning Labs

Let the Science Education Center staff assist you with your science curriculum! It will:

  • Inspire and motivate students
  • Provide laboratory experiences aligned with Kansas State Science Standards
  • Allow students to analyze tangible results
  • Make exciting real-world connections
  • Provide access to state-of-the-art bioscience equipment and reagents
Each of the learning experiences are offered in one of our four labs that are equipped with age-appropriate scientific equipment and technology that many not be available for classroom teachers and students.

Strengthen your science program by allowing your elementary, middle, and high students to explore areas of science including bioscience. Your students have the opportunity to interact with one or more of the following curricular pieces:


Elementary School

  • Learn to make a polymer as part of a Solids, Liquids, and Gases lab
  • Study the basic structure and function of the unit of life...the cell
  • Explore how organisms interact with their environments
  • Experience how different soil types determine the characteristics of ecosystems

 

Middle School

  • Experience the field of forensic science and how it is used to solve crimes
  • Study the structure and function of the Double Helix and extract DNA
  • Study genes and complete a transformation experiment
  • Examine and compare different organisms through a microscope

 

High School

  • Learn to detect genetically modified foods from plant tissue and food products.
  • Explore the world of forensic science by amplifying a segment of the student’s own DNA from chromosome 1 and observing the genomic variability among classmates
  • Have a 400 base pair segment of your mitochondrial DNA sequenced and use this data to examine human, animal and extinct hominid relationships
  • Using C. elegans as the model organism, learn how RNA can interfere with gene expression
  • Transform E. coli bacteria with the gene that enables the jellyfish, A. Victoria, to “glow” when exposed to UV light. Then, purify that protein using chromatography columns.

For more information about the learning experiences or detailed information about each learning experience offered, call the Science Education Center.