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.

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.

SimQuest Elektro

Subject(s): 

  • Electrical Engineering

Lab Type: 

  • Virtual Experiment

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

  • English, Dutch

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
SimQuest Elektro is an electronic learning environment about simple DC circuits. Several connections are available (series, parallel, and mixed) in the environment. Users can add/remove electrical components, and adjust the voltage. They can measure voltage across components and the strength of the current flow through different parts of the circuit.

Ariane 5 for Kids

Subject(s): 

  • Physics, Technology, Engineering, Astronomy

Lab Type: 

  • Virtual Experiment

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

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

Grade Level(s): 

  • Primary Education (10-12 years old)

Booking Required: 

No
The animation offers information about the Ariane 5 rocket and some of the satellites it has launched. Includes multiple-choice quiz.

MINERVA

Subject(s): 

  • Physics

Lab Type: 

  • Analysis Tool

Weblink: 

Link

Language(s): 

  • English

Grade Level(s): 

  • Secondary Education (15-18 years old)

Booking Required: 

No
MINERVA is an interactive analysis tool for students to learn more about the ATLAS experiment at CERN. It is based on a simplified setup allowing users to visualize what is happening in the detector by using 2D animations. Students have the chance to get a glimpse of how scientific experiments are performed in particle physics and how new discoveries are made.

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