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Summary Instruction in independent scientific work is an integral part of science education that has been severely neglected in the past year due to distance teaching. Here, we present an approach in which students used everyday objects to investigate the activity of yeast as a function of temperature and substrate in subtasks at home. The results of the whole course were collected in a Google document and centrally analyzed. At the same time, the learners were asked to upload their experimental reports with photos to a wiki. This enabled an exchange of experiences among the learners and problems could be discussed publicly. Furthermore, basic skills like observing, logging and detailed reporting were practiced. Online documentation and recording of results is thus a suitable method to activate and coordinate the implementation of home experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]