Chemistry Education as Experience.
Making chemistry accessible.
SPACELABS develops experiments for chemistry education in which the focus is not on the effect, but on the insight it enables. Experimental setups are designed so that questions can be investigated, hypotheses tested and observations interpreted scientifically.
Established school experiments are also reconsidered: reduced where appropriate, refined where necessary, and digitally extended where this creates genuine educational value.
INSIGHT BEFORE EFFECT.
A good experiment does more than show something. It helps us understand something.
SPACELABS develops browser-based simulations that do not replace real experiments, but deliberately prepare for and extend them. Learners can explore relationships, develop expectations and work with models before conducting the experiment themselves.
Simulation and experiment are not treated as separate learning paths, but as parts of the same process of inquiry.
COMPARING SIMULATION AND REALITY.
Data from simulations and real experiments can be analysed together and directly compared. Differences in particular create opportunities to reflect on models, measurements and their limitations.
EVA is an AI learning companion developed specifically for chemistry education. It knows the learning environment, the materials and possible pathways through the learning process – allowing it to support students precisely where questions arise.
Rather than leading learners as quickly as possible to the correct answer, EVA is designed to support thinking, explaining and asking further questions.
HINTS INSTEAD OF SOLUTIONS.
EVA provides hints, asks questions and can adapt its support to the learner’s current needs. The teacher remains in control of the learning objectives, materials and classroom setting.
EVA does not just know the content. EVA knows the path to understanding.
SPACELABS grew out of the ambition to design chemistry education in a way that gives students genuine access to chemical concepts – conceptually, experimentally and intellectually.
The name reflects the idea: SPACELABS understands chemistry education as a space for learning and inquiry. A space where phenomena are not merely observed, but investigated, interpreted and explored through models.
THINKING CHEMISTRY EDUCATION BEYOND THE CLASSROOM.
Today, SPACELABS connects school chemistry, higher education, teacher education, professional development and science communication – as different spaces for chemistry education.
