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Introducing Chromatography

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate chromatography. In this chromatography lesson, students investigate a lab set up for chromatography.
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Straw Chromatography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners separate food coloring using liquid chromatography. In this chemistry lesson, students explain the effects of different solvents on the rate of separation.
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Investigating Plant Pigments: A Guided Inquiry Laboratory Experiment

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students participate in a three-part lab in which they investigate plant pigments. Part I is designed to teach basic laboratory techniques of column chromatography, in Part II students design an experiment to separate the components of a...
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Activities for a High School Instrumentation Course

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The intent of this series of activities is to introduce high schoolers to the field of chemical instrumentaiton. They perform a few basic chemistry lab techniques: pH titration, paper, gas, and liquid chromatography, ultraviolet and...
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BioFuels: The Chemistry and Economics of Alternative Fuels

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Junior chemists manufacture biodiesel in the lab. For this exercise, they check the purity of the biodiesel using thin layer chromatography. They also calculate its density and heat of combustion. They are sure to rise to the challenge...
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Coloring Fabrics With Dyes from Plant Materials K-12 Experiments & Background Information

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate the effects of acid and bases on dyes made with plant materials.  In this chromatography lesson students predict color outcomes and complete a lab activity on color combinations.
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Introduction to Gas Chromatography

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students analyze gas chromatograms and suggest various applications for gas chromatography.
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Drug Analysis Using Thin-Layer Chromatography

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students use forensic science to positively identify any suspected drugs submitted to the laboratory. They determine the identity of the drugs found in the bodies of drug-overdose victims. Students use TLC to identify the active...
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Who Done It?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pick and choose which activities to include in this crime scene investigation. Junior detectives can examine fingerprints, DNA, blood samples, or bone structure.  The plan suggests you have teams solve a mystery, but it does not give you...
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Chromatography

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students experiment to explore chromatography and its uses.
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Chromatographic Separation of Methylene Blue and Sodium Fluorescein

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students determine the best solvent system for separating a methylene blue/sodium fluorescein mixture by thin layer chromatography. They conduct an initial TLC separation using ethanol and a different solvent mixture and analyze the data...
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Cell Structures and Their Functions

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Life science learners investigate live cells. They examine wet mount slides of cyanobacteria and Elodea plants. They peer into the dynamic microscopic world of protists. Afterward, they construct a model of a cell, including rudimentary...
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Paper Chromatography

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students participate in an experiment determining how to separate a mixture of dyes in water-soluble ink.
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Molecular Evolution in Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are using a paper chromatography study that is suitable for introductory biology. The absorption spectra studies and gel electrophoresis studies are appropriate for students who have complete both introductory biology and...
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Separation of Unknowns in a Liquid

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify chromatography as method of separating the components of a liquid. Students discover that dyes are composed of more than one component in achieving a particular color in these lessons on paper chromatography.
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Wolf Pack in a Bottle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in an activity of a mock electrophoresis using paper chromatography to study DNA and genetic restriction mapping.
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The Perils of Drinking Water

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners determine the presence of drugs in water. In this chemistry lesson, students experiment on water samples using thin layer and column chromatography. They determine the concentration of drugs present using graphical analysis.
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DNA Fingerprinting

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experiment with chromatography as a technique which is similar to electrophoresis that scientists use to identify DNA samples.
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Chlorophyll

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners use thin layer chromatography, TLC, to separate various pigments found in plants.
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Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) Separation of Plant Pigments - Chlorophyll, Carotene

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use TLC separations to identify various substances.  In this chlorophyll lesson students separate pigments found in different plants.
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Ink Analysis and Thin Layer Chromatography

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explain the process of TLC. They identify at least three components of ink. They analyze data and make conclusions based on laboratory observations.
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Lesson One: Lifting Latent Fingerprints

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Crime scene investigators practice collecting fingerprints off of surfaces in order to compare them to an imaginary crime suspect's prints. Instructions for using graphite powder and a Zephyr brush to collect the evidence are outlined....
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Flower Pigments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils experiment with Thin Layer Chromatography to separate pigments found in flower petals.
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Crime Scene Documentation

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars become forensic investigators. In this crime scene lesson, students go to the science lab which is the "scene of the crime." They collect evidence such as fingerprints, "blood" evidence, chromatography, footprints, and more. 

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