“Conversion Immersion”: Working Together to Create Investigative Labs

 

Mariëlle H. Hoefnagels and Mark Walvoord

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2005, Volume 26

Abstract

A “Conversion Immersion” workshop was convened to provide a forum for instructors to work together to convert traditional “cookbook” laboratories to a more investigative format. This paper summarizes some of the ideas that emerged from the two sessions of the workshop, which included labs on the following topics: chick development, soils, antimicrobial agents, effects of pH and heavy metals on microbial processes, DNA isolation, immunohistochemistry, enzymes, osmosis, invertebrate diversity, plant diversity, microscopy and cells, muscle contraction, fermentation, and genetic engineering.

Keywords:  inquiry

Bowling Green State University, Ohio (2004)