Spectroscopy course curriculum and lesson plans
- Find the curriculum topics that best fit your class and see which instrument can help empower and engage your students.
- We offer lesson plans to lighten your busy schedule, webinars to help you understand how you can teach these techniques in your classroom, videos to learn about how our instruments are ideal for a teaching environment, or other resources to help engage your students.
- Are you teaching FTIR Fundamentals remotely? Learn more about the Nicolet Summit FTIR Spectrometer Virtual Lab here.
- Looking for more? You can find helpful tutorials, fundamental diagrams, instrument guides, application notes, and more resources for FTIR and other techniques at the Spectroscopy Academy.
Spectroscopy lesson plans
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| Educational Experiment Packages 1 & 2 - Molecular Spectroscopy |
| Extraction Lab |
Curriculum topics
| SPECTRONIC 200 Visible Spectrophotometer | GENESYS 30 Vis Spectrophotometer | GENESYS 50 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer | picoSpin NMR Spectrometer | Nicolet Summit FTIR Spectrometer | Nicolet Summit LITE FTIR Spectrometer | Nicolet Apex FTIR Spectrometer | |
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| Structural identification | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Chemical engineering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Material characterization (TGA-IR) | ✓ | ||||||
| Material characterization (IR Microscopy) | ✓ |
Spectroscopy videos
GENESYS 30 Vis Spectrophotometer is the latest in easy to use and modern spectrophotometers.
Features of the Spectronic 200 Spectrophotometer for Teaching
Teaching Chemistry with Benchtop NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) Instrumentation
picoSpin 80 Offers Affordable Spectroscopy, Compact Design
Additional spectroscopy resources
 | Spectroscopy, Elemental & Isotope Analysis Resource LibraryAccess a targeted collection of application notes, case studies, videos, webinars and white papers covering a range of applications for Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy, Near-infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Ultraviolet-Visible (UV-Vis) spectrophotometry, X-Ray Fluorescence, and more. |