The students conducted an experiment making pasta out of various ingredients like flour, salt, and dried orange and mandarin peels they had collected. They observed how the ingredients changed when mixed with water, like the salt dissolving and coloring the water. They then mixed all the ingredients together into a dough-like mass that could be shaped and molded. After letting it rest, the students manipulated the pasta-like creation to make artworks, which had a mandarin smell. They presented their final artistic works.