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Enjoy Curiosity Lab's unique blend of science and wonder from the safety and comfort of your home.

Gather a group of your friends, choose from a selection of workshops packed with our most popular experiments, and set the stage for a visit from our awesome teachers and all their jaw-dropping science.

50 minute workshop | AED 1000 (up to 5 kids)

• Workshops are suitable for ages 4 to 14

• Additional children will be charged at AED 150 per child

• All prices are subject to VAT

For more information and bookings, please get in touch.

Issue 9 | Winter 2026

After all the wondrous science we have had the privilege of sharing with your children this term, that wasn’t quite the end we were expecting. We are sorry so many of our students didn’t get the chance to see how their Modules played out, but it was far more important for all of us to follow the advice of the government and operate with an abundance of caution.

Thanks to the strength of the UAE and its leadership, we remain hopeful that these dark days will pass soon and that we will be able to pick up where we left off and make your children fall deeper in love with science. Until then, stay curious, and importantly, stay safe.

COOKING UP SCIENCE

Of all the culinary arts, baking is the one that most resembles science. Through changes in ratios and technique, baking takes the same key ingredients and transforms them into all those tempting treats on display in bakeries. Last week, we explored the science in baking for ourselves by conducting the tastiest experiment ever: baking chocolate chip cookies! By changing the ratios of things like flour, eggs, sugar, butter and baking powder in our cookie dough, and then comparing it to some perfect control cookies, we discovered what each of these key ingredients brings to the table.

PLANET EARTH, ANIMATED

As far as we know, the universe is a vast, sterile desert in which our planet is the only oasis of life. And even a cursory exploration of the fossil record reveals just how vibrant this oasis has been throughout its history. After getting up close to our fossil collection, filled with specimens from dinosaurs, trilobites, ammonites and marine life, we searched for our very own pieces of the past. Once the dig site was carefully excavated, we assembled the fossils we unearthed and cast souvenirs to remind us of our place in the Earth’s long history.

RAMPANT REACTIONS

Last week, things got electric as we broke down chemicals by passing a current through them. So long as the chemical conducts electricity, we can use electrolysis to decompose it. After exploring charges, ions and electrodes, we discovered what exactly makes a material conduct before we split H20 into its H’s and O’s. After these combustible gases popped and settled, we decided to give steel a makeover. By choosing the right electrodes and electrolytes, we electroplated boring-looking objects with the lustrous shine of copper!

Issue 8 | Winter 2026

Our Spring Camp is filling up, and we only have a handful of Super Early Bird discount codes left. Sign up here with the code SC20 to get an additional 20% off the week!

COOKING UP SCIENCE

For most of our past, the warmer months were times of plentiful harvests, and the colder months were times of scarcity. To spread the calories throughout the year, humans need to find ways to keep the decomposers at bay and extend the shelf life of foods.  This week, we will prepare our pantries for the winter by making a brine to pickle cucumbers. While its acidity and salt deter all microbes, fermentation is less strict. Here, we create the conditions for certain beneficial microbes to proliferate and protect our food for us. Like the yeast we will use to create the very inedible Elephant Toothpaste reaction!

PLANET EARTH, ANIMATED

Hidden deep within cells are the instructions that enable an organism to form and function. In simpler lifeforms, this genetic material is “written” in RNA, but we humans have DNA, its double-helical upgrade. This week, we will explore how DNA encodes for genes, copies itself, and passes that information from one generation to the next. And as we do this, we will break down the cells of a strawberry, extract its genetic material, and isolate its DNA for all to see.

RAMPANT REACTIONS

Anyone who has noticed the fading of cherished photos knows that light can decompose. Ironically, this process made photography possible in the first place. By coating paper with a chemical particularly susceptible to light and then hiding it beneath a negative while the Sun’s UV light works its magic, our chemists will create their own old-timey photographs. Waiting for these to develop will give us plenty of time to explore UV’s glow with fluorescent potions, inks and more!

Issue 7 | Winter 2026

We have got some big discounts on offer!

First, our Ramadan Special. We are offering 30% off the remaining weekday afternoon classes during Ramadan! So if you want to make the most of the shorter school hours, come join us during the week and save on some extra science and wonder.

And registration for our Spring Camp is now open with a special offer for our very early birds. The first 20 people to sign up here using the code SC20 will get an additional 20% off the week. Act fast and save big!

COOKING UP SCIENCE

Dairy hasn’t been the only staple of the human diet. Bread has also graced tables around the world for millennia. But whereas most cultures made do with flatbreads, this week, we will be raising it up to the next level with leaveners. As our experiments will show, both baking soda and yeast produce enough gas to blow up balloons, but which of these is best at making a light and fluffy dough? After mixing and kneading our own dough, we will stretch it out, top it with tomato sauce and cheese, bake our pizzas, and put these leaveners to the ultimate taste test.

PLANET EARTH, ANIMATED

Since water is so good at dissolving the chemicals biochemistry depends on, life needed a way to stop the currents from washing these nutrients away. The cell kept these currents away and built up high enough concentrations of these nutrients within it to allow life to take hold. This week, microscopes will let us get a closer look at life’s building blocks. Using onion skin and our own cheek cells, we will explore the differences between plant and animal cells before we turn the microscope to our aquarium to reveal the microscopic universe of single-celled life hiding right under our noses.

RAMPANT REACTIONS

You don’t always have to mix a bunch of chemicals together to get a chemical reaction. Sometimes, all we need to do is add a little energy. With this kick, a single chemical can break down and produce a host of new ones. This week, that kick will come in the form of heat as we thermally decompose chemicals. After breaking down vibrantly turquoise copper carbonate into black copper oxide and carbon dioxide, we will set light to sugar and charm a pure carbon snake out of its flames.

Eid Camp 2026

Question, explore and experiment your way to a science-packed, wonder-filled Eid

Each day, your future scientists will explore a theme that could take them from the microscopic worlds of chemistry and biology, up through the invisible fields of forces and energy, and out to the astronomical realms of planets and stars. Through jaw-dropping demonstrations and mind-blowing experiments, they will get hands-on in a way that will leave them with a thorough, conceptual understanding and a lifelong love for Science.

Kids will be split into similarly-aged groups that will work their way through the day’s activities at a level best suited for their ability. Some will have their curiosity sparked, others will have it nurtured and fuelled, and everyone will have so much fun, they'll never want to leave!

All kids need to bring is a small, healthy, nut-free snack and plenty of curiosity!

Sign up now using the Online Registration Portal below

Please note:

• All prices are exclusive of VAT

• Choose “Full Enrollment” if booking for the week and “Casual Enrollment” if booking single days

• A Sibling Discount of 10% is automatically applied to the total when signing up two or more children for the week.

Issue 6 | Winter 2026

As we get ready to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, please note that the timings of our weekday afternoon classes will change. We are still waiting for a few schools to confirm their timings, but these classes will be earlier. Once times are finalised, we will communicate them directly to enrolled students.

COOKING UP SCIENCE

Milk, our favourite culinary emulsion, is also great at demonstrating why the states of matter are so important in cooking. Blend cream, its richer byproduct, with sugar, your favourite flavours, and a generous dash of liquid nitrogen to speed things up, and you’ve got the creamy solid we love called ice cream. Add the same cream to molten chocolate, and turn it into a syrup that will stay liquid when drizzled onto our ice cream. Finally, trap loads of tiny bubbles of gas into the remaining cream, and top off your dessert with a light, airy whipped cream.

PLANET EARTH, ANIMATED

As far as we know, water is the real stuff of life. It is the one thing that all life on this planet needs, so much so that scientists believe that the best place to look for extraterrestrial life is on other worlds with water. But what is it about water that brings life to our planet? By exploring the solubility of various chemicals in water, we will discover why it is the “universal solvent”, and one that is particularly great at dissolving the chemicals we depend on. Then, once dissolved, we will see how water allows these chemicals to take part in the chemistry of life, just as it allows us to react up expanding balloons of gas and liquids that change colour at will!

RAMPANT REACTIONS

For a chemical to take away electrons, another one has to be willing to give them up. And to lose electrons, we need a chemical to accept them. So most reactions are really a mixture of reduction & oxidation, and these redox reactions can be downright magical. By carefully adjusting the recipe for the Iodine Clock reaction to control the rate of redox, our chemists will concoct a clear potion that will turn pitch black on their command!

Issue 5 | Winter 2026

Nothing new to report from the Lab, except for all the exciting learning journeys we have in store for the kids this week! Keep reading to find out what they are…

COOKING UP SCIENCE

There is no emulsion more important to our diets than milk. Unlike other mammals, most humans consume it far into their lives. It is such an important part of our diets that our dairy-farming ancestors even found ways to extend the short shelf life of this emulsion of water, fats, protein and sugars. This week, we will break down this emulsion just as they did to make a range of dairy products. We will use acid to make mouldable plastic that won’t be appetising to be considered cheese. By shaking all its fat together, we will churn our own butter. And by adding some helpful bacteria, we will get it to “spoil” in just the right way to make creamy yoghurt.

PLANET EARTH, ANIMATED

Life may never have been possible on Earth had it not been for our atmosphere. It contains the oxygen that large lifeforms need to release energy, just like the flames we will light and suffocate. It also has just the right amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, a gas we will use to extinguish any flames that get out of hand, which keeps our planet’s temperature just right. But most importantly, it pushes down on us with pressure. Once we use this atmospheric pressure to karate chop rulers and suck candles into flasks upon columns of water, we will use a vacuum chamber to show what life would be like without air. Cold boiling water and exploding marshmallows await!

RAMPANT REACTIONS

For all the thieving chemicals like oxygen that like to steal electrons, there are generous ones that love to give up their electrons. This Reduction can change chemicals in spectacular ways. We will make silver appear out of “water” to coat our test tubes before we make colour disappear altogether. With the help of glucose, a reducing sugar, we will turn a blue dye-filled bottle colourless right before our eyes. But it gets better! Shake the bottle, adding some oxidising oxygen back into the mix, and watch the dye materialise out of thin air.

Issue 4 | Winter 2026

Nothing new to report from the Lab, except for all the exciting learning journeys we have in store for the kids this week! Keep reading to find out what they are…

COOKING UP SCIENCE

Getting water and oil to mix is impossible. Since water is polar and oil is nonpolar, the two most frequently used liquids in our kitchens refuse to play nice. But there are chemicals out there, like soap, that bridge the divide and bring these two closer together to create an emulsion. Now, no one wants their food to taste like soap, so this week, we will test out far more appetising emulsifiers like starch, egg, mustard, and honey. Then, using these, we will whip salad dressings and pasta sauce into stable emulsions full of flavour.

PLANET EARTH, ANIMATED

We live on a thin crust of solid rock floating on a vast ocean of magma, heated by the incredibly high temperatures of our iron-rich core. The energy welling up from these depths is what drives the changing surface of our planet. This week, we will discover how fossils showed us that the continents drift on their tectonic plates, and, with the help of chocolate powder, crackers, and icing, how the movement of these plates causes earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, as well as creates mountains and new land. Before we head for the surface, using electricity and iron, we will explore how the planet’s roiling centre gives rise to a lifesaving planetary magnetic field.

RAMPANT REACTIONS

All of chemistry comes down to the humble electron. This subatomic particle - tinier than even the infinitesimal atom - drives chemical change. Some chemicals even go so far as to steal them from others in search of stability, and one chemical has such a bad rap for doing this that we name this subatomic theft after it. Oxidation will set our lab ablaze this week as we get fuels in close contact with oxygen. With a little kick of energy to set things off, we will make iron dazzle with rust, flasks whoosh with fire, and ignite a sprinkle of seeds into dazzling flames.