CHED 88 |
| Teaching laboratory techniques is an indispensable part of introductory organic chemistry laboratories. Good command of laboratory techniques is important both for a successful completion of a laboratory exercise and to ensure lab safety. Most students who take organic chemistry are not chemistry majors and have limited interest in the subject. In our experience, an average student was able to recall the technique that he/she “learned” only for about two weeks following the lab. Thus, in the past, we frequently had to review a laboratory technique, which students already should have mastered, before it was going to be applied in an experiment. At NSU we successfully used humor and illustrations (in form of cartoons) to teach basic laboratory techniques such as TLC, distillation, extraction, melting point, recrystallization as well as lab safety. |
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General Posters
7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Sunday, 10 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Hall D, Poster
Sci-Mix
Division of Chemical Education |