The Public Lab site is a social research sharing website for non-professional and professional scientists alike.

It's like an online lab notebook where students can:

• post their work
• get feedback from peers and other Public Lab members
• create a profile and recieve attribution for your contributions
• participate in open source collaboration

Get started

To start using PublicLab.org, ask each of your students to sign up and create a profile.

Watch a brief video about how to post a research note, and read about research note posting here.

Consider the privacy of minors

Some schools have internet access policies that can be compatible with publiclab.org with the following steps:

You may want to ask students to:

• create usernames that do not identify students as belonging to a class or give out their home address
• not subscribe to mailing lists if you are under 13* (confirm this), instead, pass questions through teachers

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Public Lab Resources for Teachers:

Public Lab has a number of resources for teachers.

There are a series of well documented physical science lessons published on this site as wiki pages.
- The first lesson is called "Wetlands, water and oil", and it can be found here.
- The second lesson, called "More than meets the eye" discusses visible and infrared light. It is found here.
- The third lesson is called "Photography in a new light". It is found here.
- The fourth lesson is called "Environmental Monitoring" and it can be found here.

Activities

Here are some additional activities particularly suited for use in the classroom:

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Posting assignments on PublicLab.org

You're welcome to post your own assignments to PublicLab.org with a "Post a Response" button, and have student's responses collected in your post:

https://publiclab.org/requesting-responses

Here are some examples:

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