One Science Experiment Outlines Precisely Why It Is So Important To Diligently Wash Your Hands

Hand washing is so important and one teacher performs experiments that showcase just why we need to be more aware

Shasta

• Published in Interesting
• January 26, 2020

One teacher saw the need to explain the importance of hand washing.

"We did a science project in class this last month as flu season was starting. We took fresh bread and touched it. We did one slice untouched. One with unwashed hands. One with hand sanitizer. One with washed hands with warm water and soap. Then we decided to rub a piece on all our classroom Chromebooks."

I've got 3 kids. Mind you they aren't school age yet (please use your imagination.)

However we've been sick at LEAST 4x from August to Dec of 2019.

Do you know that tells us? People still aren't diligent when it comes to,

1. Staying home when they're sick.

PLEASE DO YOUR PART AND STAY HOME WHEN YOU'RE SICK!

2. Basic hygiene.

WASH YO HANDS!

Jaralee Metcalf, is an Idaho native behavioral specialist that mostly works with a group of students in K-6 who have autism. Between her and the special education teacher, Dayna Robertson; they came up with the idea to plan an experiment complete with a hypothesis after they ventured across one on the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital's page.

Their very thorough explanation is within her posts, and she even shared photos of the copious amounts of petri dishes.

Cue the ew's

To symbolize grossness, they had every student touch each slice of bread, except the control piece of course. However it did take 3-4 weeks for the uck to begin to grow, according to Metcalf her answer was "because of preservatives."

Fresh untouched by humans, bread:

Swiped on a Chromebook bread:

Dirty hands bread:

Washed with soap and water bread:

Sanitizer only bread:

I may never eat bread again.

She ended up editing her post to make a few things clearer after the story went viral. People had tons of intense opinions regarding the moldy bread experiment. Especially when it came to hand washing and the Chromebooks.

The consensus? WASH YOUR HANDS!

Wipe down your devices, your carts, essentially anything that human after human comes into contact with. But definitely where human hands go!

" ** Editing again to clarify: The control piece wasn’t fresh when we took this picture. It just wasn’t ever touched with naked hands and it was moved immediately from the bread bag to the zip lock baggie (every piece of bread here is from the same loaf and same day)**

**They’re freezer ziplock bags meant for raw meat and they’re sealed tight**

**We do sanitize our Chromebooks, obviously we did not do that for this experiment 🙄**

**We are an elementary school. Not a fancy CDC lab, so relax a little and WASH YOUR HANDS**

🚨🚨 Again! This is an elementary school classroom experiment, try not to get upset! 🚨🚨

**I am in no way trying to make Google Chromebooks look bad, all laptops have germs, the amount is based on the person/people using them and not the brand (can’t believe I need to specify this)**

**It is just plain soap. Not antibacterial or anything fancy**

**You’re all entitled to your opinions. But they may be deleted** "

I wish people would see the legitimate science behind this, instead of getting upset about the variables.

Excuse me, I'm going to go wash my hands now!

Shasta