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](/signup) and create a profile. 

Watch a brief video about how to post a research note, and [read about research note posting here](/wiki/posting-research).

### 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](http://publiclab.org/wiki/lesson-1-wetlands-water-oil).  
 - The second lesson, called "More than meets the eye" discusses visible and infrared light.  It is found [here](http://publiclab.org/wiki/public-lab-lesson-2-more-than-meets-the-eye).  
 - The third lesson is called "Photography in a new light".  It is found [here](http://publiclab.org/wiki/public-lab-lesson-3-photography-in-a-new-light).  
 - The fourth lesson is called "Environmental Monitoring" and it can be found [here](http://publiclab.org/wiki/public-lab-lesson-4-environmental-monitoring).

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

[activities:education]

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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:

[notes:seeks:responses]

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### Looking for more information?
Check out the questions and answers below. If you don't see what you're looking for, ask a question of your own so our community can lend a hand.

[questions:education]