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Whether you’re teaching on-campus chemistry or A&P online, each discipline includes a wide selection of labs designed to engage students, support instruction delivery, and achieve course goals.
For Students
- Apply concepts: Connect classroom learning with hands-on experiments that deepen understanding.
- Master technical skills: Practice using lab tools, procedures, and safety protocols crucial for careers and advanced study.
- Build soft skills: Deepen ability to think critically and problem solve during challenges.
- Prepare for next steps: Gain confidence for professional programs, career roles, or everyday applications of science.
For Instructors
- Meet curriculum objectives: Customize lab activities to align with course goals.
- Enhance student learning: Help students connect theory to practice, improving engagement and knowledge retention.
- Cater to diverse goals: Support non-majors with foundational knowledge and majors with career or advanced study preparation.
- Evaluate understanding: Use hands-on work to assess comprehension more effectively than exams alone.
Disciplines we cover
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Choose from a mix of 460+ hands-on and virtual labs to create a quality lab experience. Here are examples of what you can expect:
Anatomy and Physiology
Cardiovascular Physiology
Estimated Completion Times
Exploration
30 min
Experimentation
2 hrs
Evaluation
30 min
Learning Objectives
- Measure the effects of exercise on blood pressure.
- Measure the effects of exercise on pulse at the radial and carotid arteries.
- Analyze abnormal ECG readings.
Virtual
Hands-On
Analyze heart electrical activity by identifying waves, intervals, and segments. You'll explore depolarization and polarization to understand heart function and detect abnormalities.
Our detailed lab protocols provide clear instructions for measuring blood pressure, showcasing proper placement of the cuff and the stethoscope, empowering students to collect accurate cardiovascular data.
Learn the proper technique for checking the carotid pulse—a crucial skill for any physiology student. Learn everything from the correct finger placement to avoiding simultaneous bilateral pressure on the carotid arteries.
Physics
Hooke’s Law
Estimated Completion Times
Exploration
30 min
Experimentation
2 hrs
Evaluation
30 min
Learning Objectives
- Measure the spring constant of a spring.
- Compute the spring potential energy of a mass and spring system.
- Model the equivalent spring constant of springs in parallel and in series.
- Relate the spring constant, restoring force, applied force, spring potential energy, and displacement to one another.
- Predict the relationship between spring potential energy and spring constant.
Virtual
Hands-On
Analyze how springs behave in series by calculating effective spring constants and graphing force versus displacement. This lab guides you through key equations and data collection to deepen your understanding of Hooke’s Law.
Get ready to explore Hooke's Law by gathering the right supplies and preparing your environment for the experiment before you begin. Get started by establishing your spring constant.
Analyze how springs behave under applied forces, visualize force interactions, and calculate effective spring constants. Adjust variables, observe displacement, and strengthen your understanding of elastic systems through hands-on experimentation.
Learn how to set up and use the Hooke’s Law simulation before running your experiment. This lab walks you through selecting parallel springs, adjusting force settings, and interpreting force components, so you’ll be confident in collecting and analyzing data.
General, Organic, & Biochemistry
Drawing Organic Compounds
Estimated Completion Times
Exploration
30 min
Experimentation
2 hrs
Evaluation
30 min
Learning Objectives
- Draw condensed structural formulas and line-angle formulas of organic compounds using the IUPAC name.
- Illustrate organic compound structural isomers based on molecular formulas.
- Draw line-angle formulas and dash-wedge structures for geometric isomers.
Virtual
Explore structural isomers of C₅H₁₀, identifying different molecular arrangements and recording IUPAC names, reinforcing key concepts in organic chemistry.
Practice drawing organic structures from IUPAC names. This lab walks you through creating condensed and line-angle formulas, helping you build a strong foundation in molecular representation.
Learn to break down IUPAC names, prioritize functional groups, and assign correct numbering to carbon chains. This reference table helps you efficiently build molecular structures and understand key naming conventions in organic chemistry.
Chemistry
Antacid Analysis and Titration
Estimated Completion Times
Exploration
30 min
Experimentation
2 hrs
Evaluation
30 min
Learning Objectives
- Perform a titration, back titration, and control experiment.
- Determine how much acid an antacid is able to neutralize.
Hands-On
Measure, record, and analyze your titration data step by step. This lab walks you through neutralizing HCl with NaOH, helping you calculate moles and track reactions.
Watch how phenolphthalein reveals pH changes in an antacid-HCl mixture. This lab walks you through the color shift and what it means, so you’ll know exactly what to look for in your titration experiment.
Learn how to set up a titration and use a burette to analyze antacid neutralization. Get step-by-step instructions, from measuring solutions to determining acid neutralization, to confidently perform and interpret your experiment.
Biology
Cell Membrane Transport
Estimated Completion Times
Exploration
30 min
Experimentation
12 hr incubation + 3 hrs
Evaluation
30 min
Learning Objectives
- Observe osmosis in living cells using potato tissue and sucrose solutions.
- Analyze experimental data to determine if solutions are hypotonic, isotonic, or hypertonic.
- Examine the selective permeability of a membrane to molecules of different sizes.
Virtual
Hands-On
Get step by step guidance on setting up your experiment, handling solutions, and testing for glucose and starch movement across a selectively permeable membrane.
Learn how to properly use a digital scale. This ensures accurate measurements to track mass changes in different sucrose solutions, demonstrating the principles of osmosis and water movement across cell membranes.
Students will use potatoes and sucrose solutions to observe osmosis—how water moves in and out of cells based on solute concentration—a critical step in understanding the fundamental principles of cell membrane transport.
What to expect in every lab
No matter the discipline or modality, all students share the same lab process:
Step-by-step instructions
Detailed guidance and instructions with videos and images that help students navigate every stage of the lab.Safety first
Clear safety protocols and best practices for every lab that ensure safe experimentation.Built-in support
Reference materials and quicklinks—such as OpenStax text—give students the resources they need to feel confident and prepared before completing their labs.Real-world relevance
Peer-reviewed labs designed by PhD scientists to help students build and gain practical skills and knowledge.Simplified grading
Streamlined tools like autograding and LMS syncing make it easy for instructors to evaluate performance.