Simple Baggie Diffusion Lab
The Biology Corner is a content-rich website with a plethora of resources for educators. Resources include teaching notes, guided-practice worksheet, labs, activities, interactive quizzes and lots of multimedia. This page contains a diffusion lab. The particular link directs the user to the Biology Corner website for a description of a simple diffusion lab complete with visual aids. There is a hyperlink embedded in the description for a downloadable and editable version of the lab for printing purposes. This activity has been used in life science and biology classes for several years, but traditionally uses dialysis tubing, to which several middle school classroom teachers may not have access the baggie can readily be used in place of the tubing,with the same results.
