Learn By Doing Lab (SCM 302)

What do you get when you combine 100 fifth graders with 100 lab coats? The Learn By Doing Lab (SCM 302) is a great way to help get kids excited about science while you gain teaching experience. And you don't even have to leave campus! Several sections of SCM 302 are offered every Winter and Spring Quarter. Once a week about 100 elementary or middle school kids visit Cal Poly and do hands-on science with Cal Poly students as the instructors. Students registered in SCM 302 get to decide how to organize and teach the activities.

SCM 302 is a 2-unit, Pass/No Pass class. Many Biology students use SCM 302 as an advisor approved elective.

Cal Poly Students in SCM 302

Kids arrive and put on their lab coats.

Cal Poly Students lead the Build-A-Circularoty System activity.

(That's NOT real blood...)

A Cal Poly student teaching about temperature and volume (liquid nitrogen is FUN!)

Visiting students answer questions about cells in while extracting DNA from fruit.

Strawberry DNA extractions (soon to be DNA necklaces).