The laboratory is one of the educational infrastructures, which can be used as a place for students to practice understanding concepts by conducting experiments and observations. Thus, the laboratory is an integral part that cannot be separated from teaching in the classroom. The existence of a laboratory is needed to provide direct experience from the application of theories received through laboratory/practical activities, to support teaching and learning activities.

In connection with the above, the role of the laboratory becomes very important, because the laboratory is the center of the teaching and learning process to conduct experiments, investigations, or research in lectures. Thus the laboratory has a function as a place for supporting activities from class activities, or vice versa class activities are supporting laboratory activities.

The laboratory is one of the means of encouraging the optimization of the learning process. According to the Regulation of the Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform No.03/Januari/2010 and the Joint Regulation of the Minister of National Education and the Head of the State Civil Service Agency no. 02 and No. 13/May/2010, what is meant by an EDUCATION LABORATORY is an academic support unit in an educational institution in the form of a closed or open room that is permanent or movable, managed systematically for testing, calibration, and/or production activities on a limited scale using equipment and materials based on scientific methods. certain activities, in the context of implementing education, research, and community service. The functions of the laboratory in the educational process according to Sukarso (2005) are as follows:

  1. As a place to practice developing intellectual skills through observing, recording, and reviewing natural phenomena.
  2. Develop students’ motor skills. Students will increase their skills in using available media tools to seek and find the truth.
  3. Giving and cultivating the courage to seek the nature of the scientific truth of an object in the natural and social environment.
  4. Cultivating student curiosity as the capital of a prospective scientist’s scientific attitude.
  5. Build self-confidence as a result of skills and knowledge or discoveries obtained.