Table 3. Example of an Educational Scenario for a Lab-on-a-Chip Lesson Series.

Scenario Step	Activities	Goals
1. Introduction	Lab-on-a-chip (LoC) applications are discussed. Students explore the layout of a typical glass LoC, the lithium chip,18 using a microscope.	Intro to microfluidics and LoC devices.
2. Small LoC design	Students build and test an H-reactor with laminar foil (Figure 6).	Intro to production techniques and microfluidics concepts (e.g., capillary force, laminar flow).
3. LoC experiment	Students use the H-reactor glass chip, holder, syringes, and pump to build and perform an LoC experiment (Figure 2).	Experimental skills. Microfluidics concepts (e.g., capillary force, laminar flow, diffusion).
4. Advanced LoC experiments	Students use the micromixer (Figure 3) or droplet chip (Figure 4) for LoC experiments.	Experimental skills. Microfluidics concepts (e.g., Reynolds number, mixing, diffusion, hydrophilic hydrophobic interaction, droplet stability, volume-surface ratio).
5. LoC project	Small group projects using the TCB chip (Figure 5), prefab laser-cut LoC device (Figure 7), or their own LoC design/prototype.	Application of microfluidics concepts. Design and engineering skills.