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.

ESA Lessons Online

Subject(s): 

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

Lab Type: 

  • Data Set & Resource

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

  • English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, 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
The resource represents a collection of information, animations, discussion topics and experiment suggestions.

HYPATIA

Subject(s): 

  • Particle Physics

Lab Type: 

  • Analysis Tool

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

  • English, Greek

Grade Level(s): 

  • Secondary Education (15-18 years old), Higher Education Bachelor

Booking Required: 

No
HYPATIA (Hybrid Pupil's Analysis Tool for Interactions in Atlas) project enables students together with their teachers to study the fundamental particles of matter and their interactions through the inspection of the graphic visualization/display of the products of particle collisions. These products are "events" detected by the ATLAS experiment at new world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the LHC in the European Particle Research Centre, CERN in Geneva. 

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.

SEOS Tutorials

Subject(s): 

  • Earth Sciences, Environmental Science, Biology, Physics, Engineering, Mathematics

Lab Type: 

  • Data Set & Resource

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

  • English

Grade Level(s): 

  • Secondary Education (15-18 years old)

Booking Required: 

No
SEOs offers a series of tutorials using Earth Observation as a context for learning various scientific topics.

Space in bytes: video lessons

Subject(s): 

  • Physics, Astronomy

Lab Type: 

  • Data Set & Resource

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

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

Grade Level(s): 

  • Secondary Education (15-18 years old)

Booking Required: 

No
These are short video lessons about science in microgravity.

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