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Public Lab for Teachers

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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