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The OpenScience Laboratory
An initiative of The Open University and The Wolfson Foundation
This online laboratory brings interactive practical science to students anywhere and anytime the internet is available. The laboratory features investigations based on on-screen instruments, remote access experiments and virtual scenarios using real data. Several activities are available to all, while others are available only to registered users.
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Popular experiments
Measuring levels of nitrates in spring water (SXHL288)
Subject Bio Chem EnvMeasuring levels of nitrates in water samples.
Time required
Virtual petrographic microscope
Subject Earth EnvThin rock sections viewed under a polarising microscope.
Time required 1-2 hours
Time required 30 mins or more
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Elementary flame test
Subject Chem PhysA simple demonstration of the characteristic colours produced by metallic salts in flames.
Time required 1 hour
Time required 1-2 hours
The Interactive Brain
Subject Bio HealthExplore the brain and its different regions using 3D animations.
Time required
Hominid skull evolution
Subject Bio Earth EnvExplore the features of a collection of hominid skulls and take measurements that will enable you to determine the evolutionary relationships between them, investigating the march of bipedalism through the fossil record.
Time requiredVirtual petrographic microscope
Subject Earth EnvThin rock sections viewed under a polarising microscope.
Time required 1-2 hours
DNA quantitation
Subject Bio ChemSpectrometry, micropipette, dilutions, quantitation, quality checks, controls.
Time required 2 hours
Body tissues under the microscope (SDK100)
Subject Health BioFor use in OU Module SDK100 Topic 2 Activity 2.1
Time required
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Using the digital microscope to count leukocytes in blood samples
Subject Bio HealthTime required