ABSTRACT
The sciences have had the longest experience with laboratories. As the skill base develops, science instructors have found that they can use laboratories for different educational goals. Starting from approaches that merely shift the demonstration of a principle from the lecture hall to the laboratory to experiments that replicate the efforts of research teams at the professional level, laboratory strategies count among the most methodologically sophisticated of all instructional forms. Domin (1999, 543-47) created the following taxonomy of laboratory designs for the teaching of chemistry. However, these methods can be adapted to any discipline.
