How get started unlocking my child’s curiosity with Kids Science Labs?
Ready? Here are three (3) Easy Steps to Get Started at Kids Science Labs
As parents, we are often unsure where to turn when our kids are asking us so many questions. The reality is that your child is actively seeking how to understand their world, through opening, asking, breaking, and experimenting everyday in your house, car, and outside.
Your children are natural problem solvers, and Kids Science Labs is the place you take a curious kid to do real science experiments with real teachers, who love engaging and helping them discover their world. There are three easy steps below to get started at Kids Science Labs…
1. Tell Us How to Help
Have Questions? Our entire program is built to engage parents and kids. Let our customer engagement team answer your questions and support your experience from the moment you find us for the first time. We are friendly, responsive, and can offer you specific program recommendations to build your individual child/school STEM critical thinking.
2. Choose KSL Location
With beautiful centers in Chicago and Seattle, accessibility of our programs at hundreds of schools across the U.S., and a national network of partners we deliver five-star experiences to families everywhere. We just need to know where you are located, so we can best serve you and unlock your child’s curiosity.
3. Unlock Kids’ Curiosity
We offer flexible programs in-center, at-schools, and online with our STEM Labs, Camps, Parties, Field Trips, and award-winning STEAM Kits. At KSL, you will always get great teachers, creative learning environments, and a program that will develop your child’s problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity.
Hands-on science is simply investigating the questions that matter to us by physically doing something to learn. Kids ask so many good questions and many of us learn best by touching and experimenting with real stuff, rather than just reading, watching, or listening.
As parents, we want our kids to think about the world to solve problems, and hands-on science is the best tool for teaching problem solving, offering real context, and making the neural connections that enhance creativity and critical thinking in way that improves long term success for kids.
Creating a novel LED light switch from scratch
Information Retention Rate from using Kids Science Labs PowerScience. Hands-on science increases learning value and strengthens neural connections between concepts and real world experience
Learning virus vs. bacteria in PreK @ KSL Camp
INCREASE OVER NATIONAL STEM AVERAGE w/KSL
Our students receive 3x more weekly hands-on science education than the U.S. average, with real experiments led by STEM teachers who are creative & inspired every day
Hours of STEM Experiences Delivered to Kids
Med School Basic Science Lab for Kids
We have delivered 50,000+ Hours of STEM experiences. Our expert teachers love kids, and know how to adapt and optimize the learning to accelerate your child’s growth.
We are the leader in hands-on science education and are consistently the #1 ranked STEAM summer camp in every market that we operate. Over 100,000 students have experienced Kids Science Labs and we look forward to you having the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of membership as well.
Upgrading Sustainable Rooftop Gardens
We often think of science in terms of museums, a lab table with a boring experiment, a chemical reaction, or an equation we had to memorize. While these things fit the definition, at Kids Science Labs the way we think about hands-on science is simply “A perspective to approach the world”.
From designing a house, to running faster, getting rid of that nasty cold, figuring out why the light bulb keeps blowing out, or trying to win a court case - we are all curious about something.
This is especially true in young kids and exactly what makes hands-on science a critical feature of every kids' daily learning and growth.
The fact is that we love seeing innovative solutions to basic problems. We are often struck by creativity when someone makes an observation or develops a product that it striking in its simplicity, beautiful in its ability to solve a key problem, and makes us go “why didn’t someone think of that before, it was so obvious?”.
Problem solving matters and it matters in a massive way. Problem solving is how we apply what we know to find solutions to complex problems. It is not only how we innovate new medical procedures and design sleeker iPhones, but also how we determine the logistics of getting our kids to activities on-time and figuring out how to squeeze all those clothes Into suitcases on vacation. We think of what we are trying to do, consider alternatives, test a thesis, and then make a series of choices that hopefully result in a solution that works.
Designing Remote Controlled Battlebots
This basic science process of investigating the curious question, describes perfectly the mind of a child. There is stuff they don't know, so they open things, drop objects, make loud sounds, mix liquids, and ask us "why" all day long. Problem solving is what your kids do everyday and leads to messy kitchens, scraped knees, piles of pillows at the bottom of the stairs, and honey cucumber pancakes. And it is what we do everyday at Kids Science Labs. Everyday science starts with a question that matters and we are excited to be that environment where kids can innovate experiments all day and learn perspective on how to solve complex questions that will matter for our future.
Testing rollercoaster forces @ STEM Lab
So that is what we mean when we say hands-on science at Kids Science Labs. It is about thinking about challenging problems, not being afraid of them, trying to understand the core issue, iterating, and continuing to work the solution. It is baked into every class because the equation your kids will learn in high school matters, but it matters much less then understanding what the equation represents. That is how we make STEM classes your kids will love.
Hands on science is making a chair out of paper cups, duct tape, and foam board - because it allows us to experience and play while also teaching us about fundamental science. Young kids are not asking about photosynthesis, but are absolutely asking about why leaves are on the ground or why plants need light. They want to know "why" and It is why we have classes about designing shoes, making fidget spinners, why airplanes fly, how to innovate a pen with custom colors, designing lightsabers, and creating our own mobile art studio that fits in the car seat.
Kids, Parents, and Teachers love KSL because hands-on science opens doors to creativity and critical thinking.
Hands-on science matters because it helps us learn. It is especially important that our kids do this everyday not because they will all be scientists, but because they all will be curious and need ways to relate and solve the complex problems that the world presents.
Come join us to enjoy investigating the world, practice creative design, problem solving, and innovate to give your child an advantage now and in the future.