Science for Everyone

Science for Everyone PocketLab Experiment

The PocketLab Community includes thousands of educators and students worldwide exploring science and engineering together.

Find lessons, activities, and programming applications suitable for everyone from 4th grade Earth Science students to college-level engineering students.

 

Featured Activities

Middle School Science

Combined data/movie snapshot from the LIDAR activity

PocketLab/Ozobot LIDAR Demonstration

Introduction LIDAR—an acronym for Light Detection and Ranging—is a method for remote sensing to measure distances.  While LIDAR commonly uses reflected laser…
Activity setup and typical Voyager graphs

Voyager Rides an RC Car for Summertime Fun

RC Car Fun!!! Here is a fun summertime activity!  Race an RC car with PocketLab Voyager. Challenge your friends to see who can negotiate a series of cones in…
Measuring data on a globe with PocketLab.

What causes the seasons?

What causes the seasons on Earth?  Weather is always changing. Humans have been dividing up the year based on these changes in weather for thousands of years…

High School Physics

Bumperball Entertainment at a Basketball Game

Bumper Ball Physics

This might be an interesting  physics PocketLab study!  Good for the human body, or not so good?
Hysteresis setup and chart

Hysteresis of a Tactile Sensor

What is hysteresis? Hysteresis can be defined as a lag time in the response of a system to forces placed on the system.  A common way used in physics classes…
Simple pendulum in motion

3D Printed Pendulum for Simple Harmonic Motion

This 3D printed model demonstrates the physics of a simple pendulum that consists of a mass, m, hanging from an arm of length, L, and fixed at a pivot point, P…

Scratch

Scratch Teapot

Programming Exercise:Voyager Temperature Probe Controlled Scratch Teapot

Here is a project that will challenge your students’ skill in interfacing PocketLab Voyager with Scratch Programming.  The challenge is to program the five…
Voyager/Cubelets Setup

Interfacing PocketLab Voyager with Modular Robotics Cubelets Maker Space

The maker revolution has grown by leaps and bounds during the past four years. With dozens of robotic toys for learning and discovery now in the marketplace,…
LIDAR Project Setup

PocketLab Voyager Study of LIDAR Basics

LIDAR—an acronym for Light Detection and Ranging—is a method for remote sensing to measure distances.  While LIDAR commonly uses reflected laser light to…

News

Double Pendulum 3D Printed Kit

PocketLab 3D Printed Kits for Teaching NGSS

PocketLab science kits that you can 3D print The PocketLab team has put together four PocketLab science kits that you can 3D print for free at home or in your…
Loading a second ScratchX extension.

How to Load Two ScratchX Extensions: PocketLab and a Non-PocketLab ScratchX Extension

PocketLab - ScratchX Integration - The Basics To use the PocketLab - Scratch integration, PocketLab uses a ScratchX extension. This is simple enough and…
PocketLab is a Top Pick for Learning

Common Sense Education Rates PocketLab a "Top Pick for Learning"

Common Sense Education Gives PocketLab 5 Stars and Rates It a Top Pick For Learning What the reviews say about PocketLab: "Kids...can design investigations…