Green chemistry provides unique opportunities for student engagement through K-12 and community outreach. As a platform for safe, engaging outreach, green chemistry activities allow for hands-on approaches to introducing science and chemistry concepts in informal settings. Green chemistry outreach also is a means for American Chemical Society…

This article describes the use of project-based instruction in activities and labs intended to develop higher-order thinking skills with high school students and pre-service teachers through the use of soap making.

Stefan's law is demonstrated by measuring the temperature of the tungsten filament of an electric light bulb and plotting a log-log graph of temperature against power dissipation. (MLH)

Describes a geology laboratory exercise involving weathering and topographic maps which allows students to put knowledge to practical application. (SL)

Describes an undergraduate biochemical experiment involving the isolation and characterization of acid phosphatase from readily available materials. (Author/SL)

Describes a demonstration experiment illustrating rotation of grains process of metamorphic rock formation utilizing clear gelatin blocks. (SL)

Describes four science experiments relating to energy developed for interdisciplinary general science courses. (SL)

Describes two experiments for a sophomore level organic chemistry utilizing commercially available borane-methyl sulfide (BMS). (SL)

Describes an experiment for the determination of water/lipid distribution ratios of drugs. (SL)

Describes an experiment that provides a study of the different colors and shapes of crystals of transition metal dimethylglyoxime complexes with the use of a low power microscope. Discusses the preparation and examination of the crystals. (CW)

Describes an experiment demonstrating the frustration of totally reflected visible light. (SL)

This book presents essential learning approaches. It introduces educational and training activities, as well as various innovative methods aiming at the development of practical skills, in order to strengthen the continuous process of environmental education, and in particular the education for sustainable development (ESD). In doing so, it…

Describes an experiment which measures the surface tension of a liquid and illustrates interfacial spreading and the Marangoni effect. (MLH)

Describes an experiment for determining the blackbody radiation constant hc/k, utilize a conventionally built cavity and a single-beam, single-window Perkin-Elmer 12-C model spectrometer. (SL)

In this simple experiment for an undergraduate laboratory a laser beam is passed through the mixing zone of two liquids with different refractive indices. The spatial variation of the refractive index, at different times during the mixing, can be determined from the observed deflection of the beam. (Author)