Non-cookbooking Laboratory

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Non-cookbooking Laboratory

There are several reported flavors of non-cookbooking undergraduate chemistry laboratory experiments, with names such as discovery-based experiments, guided inquiry experiments, inquiry-based laboratories, mini-research projects, and thinking-skills-centered laboratory curricula.

This Web site focuses on ways that technology expands the range of possible research-style non-cookbooking experiments which more closely mirror what chemist do these days than more traditional undergraduate experiments.

Pertinent earlier presentations by A. A.:

“Implementation of LabVIEW for Computer-Controlled Experiments in General Chemistry Laboratory Instruction” (757 KB PDF file)
Article by Adam Allerhand and Alice Dobie-Galuska, Chemical Educator 2000, 5, 71-76

“Hands-On Raman Spectroscopy Makes Sense in Freshman Chemistry Laboratory Curricula” (4,825 KB)
Presented by Adam Allerhand at the 16th Biennial Conference in Chemical Education, August 2000

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