Use of Laboratory Equipment

Many pieces of laboratory equipment are difficult to demonstrate in a manner that the whole class can see. The use and reading of pipets, burets, volumetric flasks, pipet bulbs and pumps, an analytical balance, and a micropipettor will be videotaped using a flip camera and the videos will be shown on the SmartBoard so that all students can adequately see how to read a menicus and use the glassware. Chemistry demonstrations that must be done in a fume hood, including the carbon tower reaction of sugar with concentrated sulfuric acid, will be recorded so that students can see them larger than life.