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Laboratory Activities

Lab activities are often indicated in the column "Especially for High School Teachers" or by the in each issue's table of contents as being relevant for high school chemistry. Here, you can view them by topic or by the year of publication by clicking on the desired links below.

The laboratory activities from 2008 are listed below.

1996-2008 Laboratories

2009 (Volume 86)

Investigating the Retention Mechanisms of Liquid Chromatography Using Solid-Phase Extraction Cartridges by Mary E. O'Donnell, Beata A. Musial, Stacey Lowery Bretz, Neil D. Danielson, and Diep Ca; p60 (Jan).

Glowmatography by Thomas S. Kuntzleman, Anna E. Comfort, and Bruce W. Baldwin; p64 (Jan).

Science Underlying 2008 Nobel Prizes by Bernadette A. Caldwell; p71 (Jan).

An Esterification Kinetics Experiment That Relies on the Sense of Smell by Deborah C. Bromfield-Lee and Maria T. Oliver-Hoyo; p82 (Jan).

Revisiting History: Encountering Iodine Then and Now. A General Chemistry Laboratory To Observe Iodine from Seaweed by M. Farooq Wahab; p206 (Feb).

Using Soda Cans To Teach Physical Science Students about Density by Michael J. Sanger, Teari C. Humphreys, and Mark M. LaPorte; p209 (Feb).

Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage with Sulfate Reducing Bacteria by James Hauri and Laurel A. Schaider; p216 (Feb).

Measurement of Ozone Emission and Particle Removal Rates from Portable Air Purifiers by Stephen A. Mang, Maggie L. Walser, Sergey A. Nizkorodov, and John M. Laux; p219 (Feb).

Exploration of SO₂ Scrubbers: An Environmental Chemistry Project by Amber L. Schilling, Phyllis A. Leber, and Claude H. Yoder; p225 (Feb).

Using LEDs and Phosphorescent Materials To Teach High School Students Quantum Mechanics. A Guided-Inquiry Laboratory for Introductory High School Chemistry by William P. Green, Alan Trotochaud, Julia Sherman, Kazem Kazerounian, and Elias W. Faraclas; p340 (Mar).

Coloring a Superabsorbent Polymer with Metal Ions. An Undergraduate Chemistry Experiment by Jing-Fun Yaung and Yueh-Huey Chen; p347 (Mar).

Determination of the Relative Atomic Masses of Metals by Liberation of Molecular Hydrogen by W. Earle Waghorne and Andrew J. Rous; p350 (Mar).

A Simple Hydrogen Electrode by Per-Odd Eggen; p352 (Mar).

Construction of Ag/AgCl Reference Electrode from Used Felt-Tipped Pen Barrel for Undergraduate Laboratory by Shaukatali N. Inamdar, Mohsin A. Bhat, and Santosh K. Haram; p355 (Mar).

Imploding Soda Cans: From Demonstration to Guided-Inquiry Laboratory Activity by Jack F. Eichler; p472 (Apr).

Using Aspirin as a Teaching Tool by Liana Lamont; p476 (Apr).

Controlled Synthesis of Two Copper Oxalate Hydrate Complexes: Kinetic versus Thermodynamic Factors. A Laboratory Experiment for Undergraduates by Ai-Li Cui, Jing-Zhi Wei, Jin Yang, and Hui-Zhong Kou; p598 (May).

Microscale Colorimetric Analysis Using a Desktop Scanner and Automated Digital Image Analysis by Douglas J. Soldat, Phillip Barak, and Brian J. Lepore; p617 (May).

A Multiweek, Problem-Based Laboratory Project Using Phytoremediation To Remove Copper from Soil. General Chemistry Labs for Teaching Thermodynamics and Equilibrium by Stephen G. Cessna, Tara L. S. Kishbaugh, Douglas Graber Neufeld, and Gretchen A. Cessna; p726 (Jun).

JCE Digging In by Bernadette A. Caldwell; p729 (Jun).

Wash Bottle Laboratory Exercises: Mass of NaHCO₃ in an Alka-Seltzer Tablet, Molar Mass of CO₂, and the Ideal Gas Law Constant by Frazier Nyasulu, Shadrick Paris, and Rebecca Barlag; p842 (Jul).

Solubility Studies of Organic Compounds for Nonscience Majors by Mariella Passarelli; p845 (Jul).

What Is That Colorless Solution? A Qualitative Analysis Laboratory for General Chemistry by William R. Furlong, Michael R. Quackenbush, and Ramee Indralingam; p953 (Aug).

Computational Molecular Modeling by Xavier Prat-Resina and Bernadette Caldwell; p958 (Aug).

Creative Real-World Scenarios or Independent Projects for Students by Arrietta W. Clauss; p1094 (Sep).

A Quick and Accurate Oxygen-Based Pressure-Sensor Assay for Catalase Activity by Megan E. Lewis, Rebecca M. Levine, John T. York, and W. Tandy Grubbs; p1227 (Oct).

Thermokinetics: Iodide-Catalyzed Decomposition Kinetics of Hydrogen Peroxide. An Initial-Rate Approach by Frazier Nyasulu and Rebecca Barlag; p1231 (Oct).