Google Science Journal App Helps You Conduct Simple Experiments With The Help Of Your Smartphone

Adam Savage from Mythbusters once said that the difference between screwing around and science is writing stuff down. Google seems to have noted things down and is now helping you note stuff down with the help of its new Android app. The Google Science Journal app was launched a few days ago on Android with the aim of helping kids as well as adults conduct simple experiments. With the Google Science Journal app you have access to a digital science notebook that can measure and record data from your phone’s sensors. While the app by itself can record light, motion and sound levels using your smartphone’s sensors you can also pair Arduino powered sensors to collect data about any quantifiable quantity.


The Google Science Journal app also allows you to take notes, organise your notes into project, make predictions and collect data through trials. The data is collected by the Science Journal app in real-time and is plotted into graphs that helps you visualise your data more clearly. You can also take pictures of your experiment and save them on the app. If you are running short of ideas on using the Science Journal, Google is helping you out by partnering up with Exploratorium, a science education firm in the US. Exploratorium will create and assemble learning activity kits that work with the Google Science Journal app. These kits will contain cheap sensors, microcontrollers and craft supplies that will help kids conduct science experiments of their choice. You can either buy these kits from the online store or assemble them yourself. Google has already uploaded the microcontroller firmware code on GitHub so that people can use it to pair up the Science Journal app with it.

The Google Science Journal app has been launched on the Google Play Store for free as a part of its Making & Science initiative.

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