Model Science Chemlab

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Product Overview:
Whether your challenge is to introduce new computer technology to your curriculum, or bring the lab experience to on-line students or a need for an alternative to dangerous, expensive or environmentally hazardous labs, then Model ChemLab is the classroom proven solution for you.

Model ChemLab originated from academic work in computer simulation and software design at McMaster University. It has continued to be developed with extensive input from educators interested in the possible application of computer simulations for classroom and distance learning.

Model ChemLab is a unique product incorporating both an interactive simulation and a lab notebook workspace with separate areas for theory, procedures and student observations. Commonly used lab equipment and procedures are used to simulate the steps involved in performing an experiment. Users step-through the actual lab procedure while interacting with animated equipment in a way that is similar to the real lab experience.

ChemLab comes with a range of pre-designed lab experiments for general chemistry at the high school and college level. Users can expand upon the original lab set using ChemLab's LabWizard development tools, thus allowing for curriculum specific lab simulation development by educators. These user designed simulations combine both text based instructions and the simulation into a single distributable file.

ChemLab Design:

Easy to use lab interface modeled on common lab procedure
Student lab notebook workspace area
Real time animated interactive simulation engine
Lab Wizard tools for easy user created lab simulations
Support for plug-in lab simulations extensions
Integration with RasMol molecular viewer
Integrated Periodic Table application with quiz

Lab equipment:

Beakers, Erlenmeyer and Florence flasks, test tubes, graduated cylinders, burets,eye dropper, pipets, watch glasses, filtering flask with buchner funnel, bunsen burner, hot plate / Magnetic stirrer, stirring rods, evaporation dish, calorimeter, conductivity meter, potentiometer, Spectrophotometer and others…
Balances: centigram, electronic and high sensitivity balance
Distillation equipment setup: distillation flask with heating mantel, distillation head, condenser and distillation take-off

Common Lab Procedures:

Titration, Decanting /pouring
Heating and hot/cold water baths
Temperature, weight, pH, conductivity, voltage and volume measurements
Plot titration curves

Large selection of pre-defined labs simulations:

Acid/base reactions, bond lab, cations reactions, electrochemistry, equilibrium, flame lab, fractional crystallization, fractional distillation, gas laws, gravimetric analysis, kinetics, redox reactions, stoichiometry, thermal chemistry, volumetric analysis, water quality, weak acid titration and many more.. (See Current Lab List)
Additional simulations developed by third parties (see UDL Libary Exchange page)

Lab Wizards (Professional Edition):

Allow users to create customized lab simulations
Lab Wizard steps users through process of new lab creation
Single distributable file
Expandable chemical database allows users to add new chemicals to ChemLab

Lab Demonstration Mode:
Allows Professional users to capture lab simulations as they perform it and save in a demo file
Add comments and other messages to demostration file
Single distributable demo file
Playback demonstration files in both Professional and Standard editions of ChemLab