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Engineering the Future

Length: 60 minutes
Cost: $6 per student

Students will explore photovoltaic cells and build a berry-powered solar cell. They will explore how to produce electricity from light. Students will be able to measure the current and voltage of their solar cell.

ACOSS:  Grades 9-12, Physics 9; Physical Science 8; Earth and Space Elective 1
Tennessee Standards:  Physical Science 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5; Environmental Science 4.1


Radical Reactions

Length: 60 minutes
Cost: $6 per student

Come celebrate chemistry with us! Through presentations, demonstrations, and exciting hands-on activities, students will investigate the wonderful world of chemistry through five types of chemical reactions.

ACOSS: Grades 9-12 Chemistry 1, 3, 6, 8; Physics 3,5
Tennessee Standards: Chemistry I. 1.2, 1.5; 3.1; 4.2; Physical Science 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4


Propulsion

Length: 60 minutes
Cost: $6 per student

Students will create an air rocket that launches across the room and engineer a way for a payload to return safely to Earth. This hands-on workshop explores the science behind rockets and space exploration. Use your imagination to plan, build, and test your own design.

ACOSS: Grade 8: 8, 9, 10
Tennessee Standards: Grade 8.11.1, 11.2, 11.4


Dissection Lab

Length: 60 minutes
Cost: $11 per student

Want to do a dissection, but you don’t want your classroom to be smelly for weeks? Come to Sci-Quest and let us do it for you! In small groups of three or four, students will get up close and personal with the inner anatomy of animals. Choose from a shark, frog or starfish.
Due to an increase in the cost of supplies, this program is $11 per student

ACOSS: Grade 4: 5, 6;Grade 5: 7, 8;Grade 7: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7;Biology Core: 1, 5, 11, 12
Tennessee Standards: Between Living Things & the Environment: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3