We developed a rubric to compare and contrast the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) style of labs with traditional laboratory procedures. The rubric was used by undergraduate researchers to revise additional undergraduate labs.  We piloted a rewritten column chromatography lab during Organic Chemistry 2 lab in Spring 2011.  In this lab chlorophylls and carotenoids were separated and isolated from spinach and characterized using IR.  We examined the student's attitudes toward the separating of the materials in spinach and their ability to successfully separate the components.

Revising an organic two laboratory on separation of spinach with column chromatography using Science Writing Heuristic

241st National Meeting (2011)

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