Introducing The Laboratory
The Laboratory is a free science curriculum made by homeschoolers, for homeschoolers. Inspired by Charlotte Mason and John Senior, and designed with elementary-aged children in mind, The Laboratory puts kids (and their parents) in direct contact with nature through observation and experimentation, emphasizing active inquiry and genuine discovery.
What if you could learn about flight with Leonardo da Vinci?
Motion from Galileo?
Electricity from Benjamin Franklin?
Each lesson is set within a story, a narrative of discovery in which students step into the workshops and laboratories of some of history’s great scientists, learning alongside these masters the process of questioning, observation, and discovery. Through stories, experiments, engineering challenges, and observations, they discover the dynamics of matter and motion the same way those pioneers discovered them—through curiosity, investigation, and hands-on exploration.
The curriculum covers a number of topics, providing a foundation in chemistry and physics. For each topic, students encounter one of the great scientists or inventors of the past, and join them on a journey of discovery over the course of several lessons.
Each lesson has a narrative section which introduces the guide, the key questions, and the content of the lesson. Then the lesson presents projects challenging the student to observe, test, build, or discover new things about the world around them.
This curriculum works best with The Laboratory: Apprentice Journal (available on Amazon here). Each lesson includes instructions to record observations and test results in that journal.
The Journey Starts Here.
The Laboratory journeys through the workshops of 12 masters of the past.
Choose a workshop below and start exploring.
