COSID-20: Design and Testing of a Home-Kit for Physics Laboratory at a Distance with Future Teachers

Real experiments play an essential role in science education and in physics teachers’ training. In the context of distance learning, one of the main challenges that educators must face is to not renounce to propose real experiments that require students to perform a rigorous data analysis. In the context of a project named COSID-20 (COllaborazioni per le Scienze In laboratorio Didattico-2020), we designed and tested a personalised home-kit that was sent to students of a Physics Education course. The kit is suitable for the contents of a laboratory-based course aimed at future physics teachers and designed to meet the general laboratory learning goals. The kit has been used by 18 student teachers in 2020 and 17 in 2021 and was also tested with 50 high-school students in 2021. Teaching material has been created that can supplement the teachers in carrying out some activities.