"hands-on lesson" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to a lesson or activity in which learners are actively involved and use their hands to manipulate objects or materials. Example: The science teacher organized a hands-on lesson for her students, where they got to dissect a frog and learn about its anatomy firsthand.
Throughout our hands-on lesson, Thom fires fish facts at us.
On a recent August morning, he conducted a tour of the meadow, offering a hands-on lesson in the science of creating a meadow.
I prefer a hands-on lesson, but even professional culinary students must occasionally lay down their knives and take their seat in the gallery to attend lectures.
This is a real hands-on lesson about momentum and Davies, with his rugby-player's frame, explains that he creates more friction and therefore needs more force at the start.
Students who spend time searching for an important nerve or a blood vessel that surfaces nowhere near where it is supposed to be learn a hands-on lesson about the huge range of normal in medicine.
If he can get the atmosphere-building tool to work, it could be both an addictive game-play element and, at the same time, a hands-on lesson in the dynamics of atmospheric systems.
Over a decade later and after investing around 517,000 pounds ($840,000) in the derelict structure, Mr. Taylor, a freelance architect and founder of the firm Quay 2c, and Julia Manheim, an artist, were showing local school children around their colorful and luminous home for a hands-on lesson in architecture.
Chinese New Year Dumplings are a staple dish for celebrating the Chinese New Year, and at Buddakan, 75 Ninth Avenue in Chelsea, guests can take a dumpling-making class on Saturday at 1 p.m. Limited to 32 students, the hands-on lesson includes a tour of the kitchen and a brunch at the end.
Dicky Barrett, the jocular frontman for the veteran ska troopers the Mighty Bosstones, gave a hands-on lesson in skanking, the ska dance style, by inviting as many fans as could cram onstage as he sang his group's biggest hit, "The Impression that I Get".
Imagine giving students a true hands-on lesson.
In fact, next time we're there, I will sign up for some cooking classes; my excellent experience at the Hotel Gritti Palace in Venice reminded me that there's no substitute for a hands-on lesson or two.
