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.

Science @ ESA Vodcasts

Subject(s): 

  • Physics, Astronomy

Lab Type: 

  • Data Set & Resource

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

  • English, German, French, Italian, Spanish

Grade Level(s): 

  • Secondary Education (15-18 years old)

Booking Required: 

No
The resource provides a series of vodcasts exploring the Universe through the "eyes" of ESA's science spacecraft.

ESA spacecraft 3D models

Subject(s): 

  • Physics, Astronomy

Lab Type: 

  • Data Set & Resource

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

  • English

Grade Level(s): 

  • Secondary Education (15-18 years old)

Booking Required: 

No
The resource provides animations, cut-out-and-build models and 3D models of ESA spacecraft.

Galaxy Crash

Subject(s): 

  • Astronomy, Physics

Lab Type: 

  • Analysis Tool

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

  • English

Grade Level(s): 

  • Secondary Education (15-18 years old)

Booking Required: 

No
Students are asked to make predictions on how galaxies form and evolve in the Universe. They will use the ‘Galaxy Crash’ tool to simulate the evolution of 2 disc galaxies over time, and see if the results match their predictions. They will use the ‘Galaxy Crash’ to reproduce the images found in the data archive of the Faulkes Telescopes and draw conclusions on the initial conditions from which the galaxies came from, and what they might expect to happen to the galaxies in the future.

Sun4all

Subject(s): 

  • Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy

Lab Type: 

  • Data Set & Resource

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

  • English, Portuguese

Grade Level(s): 

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

Booking Required: 

No
The "Sun for all" scientific archive includes over 30,000 Sun images captured in the last 80 years. “Sun for all” focuses on the exploration of the Sun’s properties by students when using real scientific data and tools and thus implements teaching of mathematics, sciences and elementary informatics.

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