The labs shelf
Pick a door. Walk in. Look closer.
Tap the things in the scene.
A lab is a room with the right tools for finding things out. Some labs are inside, in a room or a building. Some labs are outside, where you study the real thing right where it lives. Those are called field labs. Take a look at the kinds of labs below and see what is inside.
Lab 1
A place for finding the past.
In the room.
You study here. Pottery, tools and old bones. You look at what people and animals left behind.
Archaeologists work in museum labs and at dig sites.
Lab 2
A room with a window on the sky.
In the room.
You study here. The Moon, the planets and the stars. You look at light that has traveled a very long way.
Astronomers work in observatories like this.
Astronomy Lab Fenn’s Stargazer
Tools to pick up. Telescope
Lab 3
A room for living things.
In the room.
You study here. Plants, cells and tiny animals. You look closely at what is alive.
Biologists work in rooms like this.
Biology Lab Biology Field Lab Creek Through Time
Tools to pick up. Microscope Field Notebook
Lab 4
A room for mixing and measuring.
In the room.
You study here. Mixing, melting and freezing. Solids, liquids and gases. Sour things and slippery things.
Chemists work in rooms like this.
Lab 5
A room where machines get their directions.
In the room.
You study here. Programming and robotics. How a computer takes in information, works on it and gives an answer.
Engineers who write code for phones and rovers work in rooms like this.
The room for this one is coming.
Lab 6
A room that looks at our planet.
In the room.
You study here. Soil, water and rocks. How to tell clean water from dirty water.
Scientists who protect rivers and soil work in rooms like this.
Lab 7
One room with a little of everything.
In the room.
You study here. The starting ideas of every kind of science. Today it might be rocks. Tomorrow it might be water.
Many school science rooms look like this.
The room for this one is coming.
Lab 8
A room that helps doctors.
In the room.
You study here. How scientists look at samples from the body to find out what is wrong. Kids never collect samples. Trained lab workers do that.
Lab scientists in rooms like this help doctors find sickness early.
The room for this one is coming.
Tools to pick up. Microscope
Lab 9
A room with space to move.
In the room.
You study here. Motion, force and energy. Simple machines like ramps and pulleys.
Physicists work in rooms like this.
Lab 10
A room for building.
In the room.
You study here. Design and engineering. You draw it, build it, test it and make it better.
Engineers build test models in rooms like this.