NEW! Students become part of a heart surgery team in this interactive one-hour dissection lab that explores the anatomy of the heart and what can go wrong. Students learn how arteries are unclogged, how valves are repaired and how to be “heart healthy.” Sponsored by DSI: Diversified Specialty Institutes

A mystery needs to be solved and we need your help to examine the evidence. Experience the procedures and protocols that forensic teams follow to match a suspect to a crime. Teams will use deductive and problem-solving skills, microscopes and teamwork to determine results (depending on the grade level).

Grades 1-3: The Candy Bar Caper
Grades 4-8: The Case of the Missing Poodle

This hands-on optics lab begins with the question "Does light reflect in a predictable manner?" Students confront challenges and solve problems while creating explanations for what they observe using lasers, mirrors and teamwork.

Learn the main parts of a flowering plant and each part's function while dissecting a flower. In this fascinating investigation students view their flower parts, plant cells, grains of pollen, and much more using compound microscopes and dissecting tools.

NEW! Why is the brain our control center? Discover the different parts of the brain in this captivating hands-on lab! Explore the functions of various brain areas and participate in hands-on activities that relate the functions of a human brain to the functions and anatomy of a sheep brain.

Explore the external and internal features of this fascinating invertebrate sea creature. Compare a squid to a human and learn where it fits in the system of classification.

In a unique collaboration with University School of Nashville, ASC offers a real world science field experience that introduces students to an incredible wetlands ecosystem. Using school transportation, students and teachers meet with an ASC Educator at USN's wetlands to identify plants and animals, while collecting specimens to take back to the ASC microscope lab. At ASC, students make observations about the special adaptations of aquatic invertebrates and wetland plants. This fascinating experience is bound to excite and inspire all young scientists.

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