LabEx 2012 Getting Ready

We are getting ready for LabEx 2012 here at Crandall University. Just yesterday we got vials of paramecia, euglena and spyrogyra ... oh my! Last week we got our bucket of frogs (double injected for your viewing pleasure!) and Dr. Mel was dissolving pieces of meteorite in nitric acid to see if we could add an astrochemistry module to the metals lab (not so much ... yet).

We have worked out our schedule at it will be Biology labs in the morning and Chemistry labs in the afternoon. The way our schedules have worked out the start time for the Biology lab in the morning will be 8:30 AM and will run until 11:30 AM there will be a lunch break/tutorial time from 11:30 - 1:00 and then the Chemistry labs will run from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. People coming from away will need to note that start time for the first Biology lab at 8:30 AM.

Our lab manuals have been set and this is the outline for the week of labs:

	Biology	Chemistry
Wednesday	1-A] Introduction to Microscopy 1-B] Cells	1-A]     Elements and Compounds: Smelting Copper from Ore 1-B]     Numbers and Significance                  1-C]     Density Analysis of Canadian Coins to Determine Metal 1-D]     Determination of % Cu on Plated Coins
Thursday	2-A] Earthworm Dissection 2-B] Grasshopper Dissection	2-A]DEMONSTRATION: Composition of Air 2-B]Collection of a Gas over water [CO2] 2-C]Acid-Base Titrations 2-D]DEMONSTRATION : Potentiometric Acid-Base Titrations
Friday	3-A] Frog Dissection	3-A]Redox: The Reactions of Metals with Nitric Acid 3-B]Spectrophotometric Determination of % metal in Coins
Monday	4-A] Environmental Assessment	Environmental Assessment of the CU Stream
Tuesday	Sample Analysis and Report Writing	Sample Analysis and Report Writing

Keep an eye on this blog as we get closer to LabEx for more exciting information.