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Bandyopadhyay, Subhajit; Roy, Saswata – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
This paper describes an inexpensive experiment to determine the carbonyl stretching frequency of an organic keto compound in its ground state and first electronic excited state. The experiment is simple to execute, clarifies some of the fundamental concepts of spectroscopy, and is appropriate for a basic spectroscopy laboratory course. The…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Spectroscopy, Science Instruction, College Science
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Raman, Raghu; Achuthan, Krishnashree; Nedungadi, Prema; Diwakar, Shyam; Bose, Ranjan – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2014
Virtual Labs (VLAB) is a multi-institutional Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative, exclusively focused on lab experiments for engineering education. This project envisages building a large OER repository, containing over 1650 virtual experiments mapped to the engineering curriculum. The introduction of VLAB is a paradigm shift in an…
Descriptors: Laboratory Experiments, Engineering Education, Educational Technology, Educational Innovation
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Vartak, Rekha; Ronad, Anupama; Ghanekar, Vikrant – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
Scientific investigations play a vital role in teaching and learning the process of science. An investigative task that was developed for pre-university students is described here. The task involves extraction of an enzyme from a vegetable source and its detection by biochemical method. At the beginning of the experiment, a hypothesis is presented…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Biochemistry, Scientific Methodology, Science Experiments