Science Labs

For school groups, labs cost $300 per lab with a maximum capacity of 32 students. A $50 deposit is required per lab at booking.

For Title I school groups, the $300 fee for labs can be waived depending on the availability of funding from our donors. Book early to secure funding. A refundable $50 deposit is required per lab at booking. Deposits will be refunded when you check in on your field trip day. Canceling a lab within three weeks of the scheduled date will result in forfeiture of your deposit, unless the cancellation was due to a public health directive.

If you are an educator at a Title I school and have been granted a fee-waived lab, you are required to implement one of the provided pre-lab activities (journal writing and/or vocabulary) and post-lab activities (journal writing and/or activity) in your classroom. All pre-lab activities can be found in the educator resource guides.

To reserve a Science Lab, please indicate your interest on our Request a Field Trip form. When a Group Reservations specialist calls to schedule your trip, they will guide you through the booking process.

All lab resources can be found as PDFs under each individual lab tab to the left.

Educator resource guides

Each lab has an associated educator resource guide filled with pre-lab information and resources to help prepare teachers and students for the lab experience and connect it to the classroom. These guides include:

• Brief summary of the lab, including NGSS connections
• Vocabulary terms and definitions
• Related texts
• The Tech Interactive’s gallery and exhibit connections
• Journal prompts

Vocabulary Activities

Becoming familiar with the vocabulary used in the lab helps your students feel more confident in the experience. In addition to the vocabulary terms and definitions found in the Educator Resource Guides, we have provided some potential activities for you to use with your students to practice the vocabulary prior to the lab.

Vocabulary Choice Board (Grades 2-3) 
Vocabulary Choice Board (Grades 4+) 

Lab journals

Keeping a lab journal is an essential part of any scientist’s or engineer’s job. A lab journal serves as an ongoing collection of ideas, prototypes, drawings, data, calculations, failures, successes and conclusions. Implementing the lab journal is also one method of incorporating language arts into your science curriculum.

We have designed a simple lab journal to be used by your young engineers and scientists in The Tech Interactive Science Labs in the hope that they too will document their hard work from classroom to lab and beyond.

Related Activities 

There are two activity guides for each lab that can help reinforce the learning back in the classroom. Activities are hands-on, easy to implement, and NGSS-aligned.

All of our labs support Next Generation Science Standards. Details on connections to grade-level standards:

What Lab for What Grade? (PDF)
Second Grade Standards Connections (PDF)
Third Grade Standards Connections (PDF)
Fourth Grade Standards Connections (PDF)
Fifth Grade Standards Connections (PDF)
Middle School Standards Connections (grades 6-8) (PDF)
High School Standards Connections (grades 9-12) (PDF)