Living Labs supports schools with ongoing maintenance, training, and instructional support for live learning environments.
Living Labs supports schools with ongoing maintenance, training, and instructional support for live learning environments.
At Living Labs, we believe the best classrooms are alive.
Our mission is to help teachers and schools build, maintain, and use living systems that make science tangible, engaging, and sustainable.
We combine the reliability of professional support with the honesty teachers appreciate. No gimmicks, no jargon — just real systems, real learning, and real growth.
We handle the BS (BioSystems) so teachers can focus on what really matters: students and learning.
We Support Live Learning Environments
The majority of our work is helping schools keep existing living labs working.
Living Labs provides ongoing maintenance, troubleshooting, and system care for aquaponics, hydroponics, gardens, and greenhouses—so these environments remain active, reliable spaces for learning instead of becoming unused or broken.
When systems are supported well, learning can continue without interruption.
We Partner With Teachers
Support doesn’t stop at the system.
Living Labs works alongside teachers through co-teaching, instructional coaching, and access to classroom-ready resources that help students learn from real, living systems. Our goal is to make these environments usable, meaningful, and connected to daily instruction.
This is a partnership built around learning, not add-ons.
We Design and Build When Schools Are Ready
In addition to supporting existing systems, Living Labs also helps schools design and implement new living labs or expand what they already have.
We guide planning, system selection, and long-term support so new environments are built to last—and to teach.
Integrated systems that teach cycles, balance, and systems thinking.
Aquaponics labs combine fish, plants, and water into a single living system. Students explore ecosystems, nutrient cycles, data collection, and cause-and-effect relationships through hands-on observation and care.
Living Labs supports aquaponics through ongoing maintenance, instructional partnership, and system optimization—so learning continues even as systems evolve.
Controlled growing environments for plant science and data-driven learning.
Hydroponics labs allow students to grow plants without soil, focusing on variables like light, nutrients, and water. These systems are ideal for experimentation, measurement, and cross-disciplinary STEM learning.
Living Labs helps schools maintain and use hydroponics systems reliably, while supporting teachers in connecting plant growth to meaningful instruction.
Place-based learning connected to food systems, ecology, and community.
Outdoor gardens provide powerful opportunities for hands-on, place-based learning. Students engage with soil science, ecology, nutrition, and environmental stewardship in a tangible way.
Living Labs supports garden labs through seasonal planning, maintenance support, and instructional integration—helping gardens remain active learning spaces, not just planted spaces.
Year-round environments that extend learning across seasons and disciplines.
Greenhouse labs offer controlled environments where learning can continue regardless of weather or season. They support long-term investigations, workforce connections, and advanced growing practices.
Living Labs partners with schools to maintain greenhouse systems, support instruction, and ensure these spaces are used consistently and effectively.
