For the last four years, I have been using hybrid POGIL/SWH experiments in my introductory organic laboratory.  My approach helps students learn fundamental concepts, data processing skills and scientific writing skills while they are acquiring laboratory techniques.  Each experiment starts with a question and requires students to propose types of laboratory data to answer it; students also submit an electronic pre-lab assignment to assess their understanding of concepts relevant to the question.  In a pre-laboratory discussion students develop a general experimental plan.  They then receive a workable procedure for collecting the required data.  In the laboratory each student individually collects part of the data.  Class data are pooled electronically and a post lab discussion helps the students explore various ways to organize and interpret the total data set in preparation for writing a detailed report.  The presentation includes my two-semester lab syllabus and a detailed discussion of one specific experiment.

POGIL-Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) hybrid experiments for teaching concepts in introductory organic laboratory

245th National Meeting (2013)

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