More Distance Learning Hands-On Experimenting

Continuing with my goal of bringing more SUSTAINABLE and ACCESSIBLE hands-on labs to the distance learning setting, below is another summary of the activity that was used to follow up the one described here. I hope you find it useful in your own planning for those of you that are still 100% distance.

**Step 1:**Play this video for students to watch individually. Video is edited to strategically withhold the ending.

Step 2: Challenge students to complete the experimental setup and post conclusion videos to a shared Padlet board. Students were given the instructions below:

When you are ready, prop your camera over the dish (with help from a family member or holding with your other hand) record a video of you completing the experiment shown in the above video. Note: if you want to do it more than once, you need to rinse all soap out and start over.

**Step 3:**Students viewed and commented on one another's work.

**Step 4:**Students hypothesized, in Zoom breakouts: Why, on a molecular level, the soap-water combination forces the pepper to the side of the dish.

Step 5: Students repeated the sequence with this similar video, edited to stop before the experimental reveal. They posted video conclusions to a shared Padlet board.

Step 6: Students viewed this reveal video followed by a group discussion/lecture to fill in missing gaps and relate back to previous instruction.