Science on wheels
Our Mission
We use mobile learning labs to bring science and technology to children, educators, and communities, helping them explore the grand challenges of Earth, the environment, and society in a rapidly changing world.
Science delivered!
Geo Explorer brings science and technology to your young explorer’s doorstep – at school and in your community.
Learning by doing
Geo Explorer visits encourage kids to explore their world with science and embrace an explorer mindset through memorable visits and hands-on, tactile learning stations.
curiosity meets curriculum
Geo Explorer is designed for fun-first science experiences with real educational value that connect directly to what students are learning in the classroom, bringing the curriculum to life.
Geo explorer is already on the road in Alabama!
Geo Explorer Auburn is the first mobile lab in the Geo Explorer Lab network. Geo Explorer Auburn is a 35 foot solar-powered mobile science lab that visits Alabama K-12 schools and communities to solidify a foundation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We are a partnership between Auburn University Department of Geosciences, Auburn University College of Sciences and Mathematics, 15lightyears, and Bama RV.
Take a look inside
Geo Explorer Learning Stations
LANDFORMS & TOPO
Students construct a virtual landscape to model how constructive and destructive processes shape Earth’s surface and explore where to locate a community within their landscape to best withstand the negative impacts of natural hazards on humans and the environment.
EXTREME WEATHER
Students design an extreme weather emergency preparedness plan for their community after exploring the atmospheric conditions that lead to severe weather and when and where extreme weather events such as tornadoes or hurricanes most commonly occur.
SCALE & 'SCOPE
Students compare and contrast the differences between scales of observation between microscopes and maps as they explore the microscopic world by examining a variety of mineral, rock, soil, and biological samples using laboratory microscopes.
TERRESTRIAL BIOMES
Students use virtual reality to compare various terrestrial biomes, considering physical and biological characteristics and the plants & animals that live there to characterize the ways humans benefit from and affect physical and biological aspects of each biome.
Sustainable land use
Students use a 55″ interactive touchscreen to explore local, regional, and global land use patterns and examples of sustainable agriculture and forestry practices as they consider how humans impact the natural environment.
aquatic ecosystems
Students explore important relationships between physical, chemical, and biological characteristics within an aquatic ecosystem, including the ways humans impact and interact with aquatic ecosystems.
Along for the ride?
We're going places - and we hope you are too
We're building a global geo explorer network
Our main HQ is in the Auburn University Department of Geosciences in Auburn, Alabama (USA). But Geo Explorer Labs has big plans for a global network of mobile science labs and an established track record of building the mobile labs, curriculum, and partnerships to make it happen.
Are you interested in building a Geo Explorer mobile lab with us? Whether you’re an educator, nonprofit, or community leader, we’d love to collaborate. Let’s bring hands-on science learning to your community—wherever you are.
Fueled by curiosity. Powered by you.
Every contribution helps us build up and maintain our mobile science lab, develop high-quality curriculum tied to academic standards, and bring hands-on STEM experiences to new communities. With your support, we can reach more children, train more educators, and inspire the next generation of explorers—one stop at a time.
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Fueled by curiosity. Powered by you.
You can help us change science by sharing your time, talents and resources. Let’s work together to inspire science’s next generation. We hope you will join us!
