On line Visionary Workshop

Gina Mihai & Evita Tasiopoulou

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What is Go-Lab:

The Go-Lab Project wants to provide teachers and students with access to scientific instruments (remote & virtual laboratories) to help them, respectively, to enrich their teaching and have a hands on experience on science.

Main aim (s):

Offer students the opportunity to perform personalized scientific experiments with online labs

Offer teachers the possibility to enrich their classroom activities with demonstrations and access to online laboratories

About Go-Lab

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An example activity:How long does a day last in

Jupiter?

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How long does a day last in Jupiter?

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Educational Scenario including- astronomical pictures- Geometry- the SalsaJ (or ImageJ) software

Duration: 2 x 45min Age Range: 12-15, 15-18 years

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Educational Objectives:o Get information and planetary pictures from

the Internet. o Underline the importance of Physical systems’

modeling.o Use simple actions of SalsaJ software.o Teach students how to perform normal round

equations for statistics calculations of a Physical system.

o Develop actions, motivation and attitude for Astronomy.

How long does a day last in Jupiter?

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Using a remote robotic telescope to capture images of Jupiter

Teacher: Which laboratory can I use?

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rotation plane

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Working on the theoretical background

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Using SalsaJ to collect and analyze data

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Fig 2. The spot rotation from Jupiter South Pole

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Fig 2. The spot rotation from Jupiter South Pole

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Supporting the activity with digital educational resources

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The need for a federation of online labs

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Searching for educational materials and tools

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A search on Google for “conservation of momentum

lab” retrieves 2.000.000 resources!

Searching for educational materials and tools

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Necessity for a federation of online labs

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The vision of Go-Lab

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Searching for a Laboratory

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Search for a Laboratory, experiment or scaffold

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Mock-up (How the tool will look like)

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https://golab.mybalsamiq.com/projects/golab/naked/A-Main-Orientation?key=a0502e554e2838fc744d76bd45773aab6d5ea442

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Interested in the project and want to stay informed?

Fill in the online survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Go-Lab_visionary_ws

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