astro-lab@home — Bringing Science to the Sofa

About This Paper

When schools closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the astro-lab.app project adapted its full experiment suite for home use — Most experiments need only household items and a smartphone; some (habitable zone, greenhouse effect) also need a TI SensorTag and a Bluetooth mouse. This open-access article in the Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal documents the adaptation process, the resulting home experiment formats, and lessons learned about low-barrier science engagement.

The paper is freely available and addresses a general audience of science communicators and educators. It was published in CAPjournal, which is distributed globally to planetariums, science centres, and astronomy education organisations.

Published In

Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal, CAPjournal, No. 31, pp. 37–41, October 2022. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14986186