Learning Labs

Let the Science Education Center staff assist you with your science curriculum! Each of the labs are equipped with age-appropriate scientific equipment and technology that may not be available for classroom teachers and students in their own school. 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 Matter 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 crime
  • 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 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.

 

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