For Further Reading

Designing labs and writing lab handouts

• Indiana University Teaching Handbook, section on science labs
• The University of Michigan lab guidebook
• The home page for workshop physics (more info)
• "Revising geology labs to explicitly use the scientific method" Hannula, 2003
• Inquiry-based learning, technology and curriculum Edelson et al., 1999

Lab Safety

• An example of a chemistry lab safety manual from Duke
• Laboratory Safety Institute 40 Steps to a Safer Laboratory
• Videos from HHMI (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) about lab safety

Principles of learning applicable to labs

• "America's Lab Report" NRC, 2005
• "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School" NRC, 2000
• PKAL (Project Kaleidoscope) summaries of What Works' in Undergraduate STEM Education ( This site may be offline. )

Value of research and research-like experiences in lab settings

• Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experiences
• Richard Feynman's famous 1974 commencement address at Cal Tech, Cargo Cult Science
• The worst way of learning science...is doing science. ( This site may be offline. )
• "Considerations on Experience-based Learning" [McDermott et al, 2002]

Designing lab exercises around monitoring earth systems

• Minnesota Lake Monitoring Program (more info)
• "Building Groundwater Monitoring Wells on Campus: A Case Study and Primer" Laton, 2006
• Design, Implementation and Assessment of an Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Watershed Research Laboratory [Woltemade and Blewett, 2002]

Assessment

• Classroom Assessment Techniques - a classic! (Angelo and Cross, 1993)
• PKAL's resource list on assessment