Grades 6-8 Learning Labs

Students explore coding and robotics by programming robots to navigate student-designed challenges.

**Please note this is a 2 hour program experience.** Discovery Science Center’s Challenger Learning Center is a mock space station and mission control simulation environment that promotes awareness of how technologies make space exploration possible. The simulation creates a cooperative learning atmosphere where students have opportunity to test out a STEM career underscored by teamwork, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making. This pairs well with the planetarium show Mars: The Ultimate Voyage!

Students explore anatomy of different species anatomy and examine evidence of biological evolution.

Students investigate Earth’s geosphere, rock formations, and geological history.

Students explore Earth’s resources and human impact through renewable energy, water conservation, flood control, and erosion.

Students explore genetic coding, and the relationship between genotype and phenotype.

Students investigate molecules and interactions while exploring how particles behave during chemical reactions.

Students explore brain evolution, organization, and how the brain processes information and shapes the way we think.

Students collaborate in teams to design, build, and test a rocket while competing for a simulated NASA contract and applying problem-solving and engineering skills.