Online Labs

The online labs aim at supporting inquiry-based learning and providing the possibility to conduct scientific experiments in a virtual environment. Importantly, the inquiry process should be well structured and scaffold to achieve optimal learning results. Scaffolding refers to support (dedicated software tools) that helps students with tasks that they cannot complete on their own. For example, they can help students to create hypotheses, design experiments, make predictions, and formulate interpretations of the data.

Online laboratories can be of two kinds. Remotely-operated educational labs (remote labs) provide students with the opportunity to collect data from a real physical laboratory setup, including real equipment, from remote locations. As an alternative there are virtual labs that simulate the real equipment. Remote and virtual labs both have specific advantages for learning and can be combined to support specific learning activities. Additionaly, the Go-Lab project offers access to scientific databases, tools, and resources supporting inquiry learning activities of the students.

Please use the filters on the right to find appropriate online labs and resources for your class.

SalsaJ

Subject(s): 

  • Astronomy, Biology, Physics, Mathematics

Lab Type: 

  • Analysis Tool

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

  • English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Northern Sami, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish

Grade Level(s): 

  • Primary Education (10-12 years old), Secondary Education (12-15 years old), Secondary Education (15-18 years old)

Booking Required: 

No
SalsaJ is free, student-friendly software developed specifically for the EU-HOU project. SalsaJ allows students to display, analyse, and explore real astronomic images and other data in the same way that professional astronomers do, making the same kind of discoveries that lead to true excitement about science.

International Space Station 3D Teaching Tool

Subject(s): 

  • Astronomy, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Earth Sciences, Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

Lab Type: 

  • Virtual Experiment

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

  • English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese

Grade Level(s): 

  • Secondary Education (12-15 years old), Secondary Education (15-18 years old)

Booking Required: 

No
This is a fully navigable 3D model of the interior and exterior of the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting above the Earth allowing students to become astronauts on the ISS. It is a role playing adventure game or as a set of interactive exercises that can be accessed in any order. Full scientific explanations and background information are provided.

LHC Game

Subject(s): 

  • Physics

Lab Type: 

  • Virtual Experiment

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

  • English, German, French, Italian

Grade Level(s): 

  • Secondary Education (12-15 years old)

Booking Required: 

No
LHC Game is a tool that introduces students to the operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, which is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles. Using this application, students have the opportunity to learn about how the accelerator works through an interactive game that allows them to accelerate particles on their own and bend their trajectories or focus beams of particles.

Aquarium WebLab

Subject(s): 

  • Physics

Lab Type: 

  • Remote Lab

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

  • English, German, French, Spanish, Basque, Czech, Hungarian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak

Grade Level(s): 

  • Primary Education (10-12 years old), Secondary Education (12-15 years old)

Booking Required: 

Yes
This remote lab demonstrates the Archimedes’ Principle. There is an aquarium with three balls filled with different liquids (water, oil and alcohol). The students can throw the balls into the water and can take the balls out of the water using a web interface. Through a web cam, the students will see how much of the ball is over or below the water. Doing this they will be able to calculate the density of the ball, etc.

International Space Station DVD series

Subject(s): 

  • Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Technology, Astronomy

Lab Type: 

  • Data Set & Resource

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

  • English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese

Grade Level(s): 

  • Secondary Education (12-15 years old), Secondary Education (15-18 years old)

Booking Required: 

No
The resource provides a series of 4 videos with astronauts demonstrating experiments in space and children repeating them on Earth. Topics covered are: Newton’s laws, the human body, properties of matter, robotics.

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