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Home-Based Experiments and Demonstrations to Fulfill the Laboratory Class in

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Pace University
Home-Based Experiments and
Demonstrations to Fulfill the
Laboratory Class in Blended Learning

Elmer-Rico E. Mojica
Department of Chemistry and Physical Sciences
Pace University
UNIFFIED Salindunong Webinar Series
August 1, 2020

Science

 It is the study of facts.

 It is about discovering the world
around us, of knowing things, and
having new and wonderful idea.
 Scientific learning that takes place in
classrooms alone is not true learning.
 Hands-on learning is very important
for fostering scientific learning in early
childhood: science lab experiments.

Laboratory Class Goals of Laboratory Class

- Laboratories are an essential component of •Develop intuition and deepen understanding of
science courses. concepts.
- The laboratory is an exciting place where
students investigate, analyze, and
•Apply concepts learned in class to new
reflect. They test and apply theories and situations.
make abstract concepts concrete. •Experience basic phenomena.
- Experimentation provides students with real- •Develop critical, quantitative thinking.
world contexts to apply scientific concepts,
develop critical thinking skills, and engage in •Develop experimental and data analysis skills.
scientific processes. •Learn to use scientific apparatus.

Science Teaching Reconsidered, National Academy Press, 1997

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Goals of Laboratory Class Laboratory Class Approach

•Learn to estimate statistical errors and •Expository –Students follow prescribed
recognize systematic errors. directions to verify a preordained results.
•Develop reporting skills (written and oral). (traditional instruction or cookbook approach)
•Practice collaborative problem solving.
•Exercise curiosity and creativity by designing a •Inquiry – Students are provided with materials,
procedure to test a hypothesis. information and a question to answer, but are
•Better appreciate the role of experimentation in given latitude tin how to go about designing the
science. experiment or interpret the results which is not
preordained (open-inquiry)
•Test important laws and rules.
Science Teaching Reconsidered, National Academy Press, 1997

Laboratory Class Approach COVID-19 Pandemic

•Discovery – The instructor has a particular • Forced everyone to stay at home
outcome in mind and directs student towards • Shift to remote learning here in US
that outcome, encouraging students to make • Most schools closed in the Philippines
predictions, formulate hypothesis and design • Alternatives for lab experiments for those
and evaluate the experiment themselves. who did remote learning
(guided-inquiry) • Simulations
•Problem Solving – Students are given more • Lab Kits
ownership over the process of discovery while • Videos
incorporating a greater dimension of teamwork • No Lab
and interdependence

Online Class Online Resources

Computer simulations provide
alternatives to complex experiments that Science: https://phet.colorado.edu/
might be too large, expensive, or
dangerous for physical manipulation or not
feasible for a large number of students.
Lab kits, in combination with household
items, provide the means to conduct https://www.labxchange.org/
experiments at home on a smaller scale https://libguides.mines.edu/oer/simulationslabs
and without the need for expensive https://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/
equipment

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Laboratory Best Alternative Curiosity

• Mimic commercial lab kits but use everyday • Make students curious.
household materials. • Curiosity makes
• By using these materials, teachers have to learning more effective
use their creativity and take advantage of and enjoyable.
students curiosity. • Curiosity is just as
• Curiosity is the key to important as
creativity. intelligence in
determining how well
Creativity Curiosity students do in school.

Curiosity

https://seewhathappensblog.com/2011/10/26/forget-creativity-lets-demand-curiosity/

Curiosity Things to Consider

• Avoid adapting the traditional lab
experiments directly to online environment
• Think SAFE (Safety, Affordability, Feasibility,
“Engageability”)
• Key to have a successful distance learning
activity is its DESIGN.
• Focus on learning objectives

Inspiring Curiosity: A Librarian’s Guide to Inquiry-Based Learning (ISTE 2018).

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Designing Home Experiments Designing Home Experiments

• Conceive: What do I wish to accomplish
in this experiment/activity?
• Design: How I will accomplish the
experiment?
• Implement: How it will done by the
students?
• Operate: Does it work the way it was
planned?

Coca-Cola Soaking in Coke

Chemistry
O
K
Experiments

Evaporating Coke Milk + Coke

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Bleach + Coke Floating/Sinking Coke

Coke as Cleaning Agent Mentos + Coke

Balloons Balloons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4vWDDmKQTM

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Balloons Balloons

Balloons Food Coloring

Food Coloring

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Food Coloring Food Coloring

Skittles and M&M Rainbow

Kitchen Chemistry

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Iodine Starch Lemon Battery?

Potato Battery? Lemon Battery?

Potato Battery? Lemon Battery?

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Potato Battery? Avocado Browning

Apple Browning Cooking

Ripening
Bigas to Kanin
Banana

https://www.scienceinschool.org/content/go-bananas-biochemistry

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Fruit Ripening Carburo

Meat Tenderizer Egg/Itlog

Seafoods Alternatives

 If materials cannot be supplied, teachers

can perform the experiments, video it and
show to the students.
 Better, just look for the videos in YouTube.
 You can look on other sites where the
videos are available.
 To economize data plan (Internet use)
make/find videos that are short.

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Websites
 Filipino Science Hub

 Pueblo Science

 YouTube Channel: Craft for Kids, Raising

da Vinci, MaxHax, Go Experimental,
Malmesbury Education

 My personal webpage:
https://projectchemunity.weebly.com/

Final Thoughts Acknowledgements

• UNIFFIED
• Everyone who attended the webinar

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