This presentation explores the use of 360° videos as an immersive, pedagogically structured tool to support pre-service teachers in planning and enacting laboratory-based science activities. A 360° video was developed around an ocean acidification experiment to model fair testing, capturing the full laboratory process. The setting for this project was a science laboratory room that is equipped for physics, chemistry, biology, and environmental science instruction in a teacher education program at a Canadian university. The 360° video allows pre-service teachers to experience the lab procedure, enhancing procedural competence and instructional readiness before conducting experiments with their future students. This pilot also demonstrates the potential for 360° videos to support student science laboratory preparedness, laboratory safety awareness, science learning motivation, and engagement. Future research will examine pre-service teachers’ experiences using the video as a pre-laboratory intervention and extend its use to in-service teacher professional development. This study highlights 360° videos as a scalable, immersive strategy to strengthen teacher preparation and enhance experiential hands-on science learning.
Estaiteyeh M., Kiani M., Takkouch M. & Rong W., 2026. Seeing the whole lab: 360° videos as an immersive tool for science teacher education. iLRN Practitioner 1(1). Article.
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