Many of the MOF-based experiments published for educational purposes are designed for upper-level undergraduate courses and necessitate the use of hazardous reagents and specialized equipment. Hence, these experiments may be inaccessible to high school and lowerlevel undergraduate laboratories, especially those located in institutions that do not focus heavily on scientific research (such as liberal arts or community colleges). For example, avoiding exposure to chemical hazards such as toxic solvents and reagents are of prime importance in such introductory classroom environments. However, the synthesis of MOFs typically requires harsh solvents such as N,N-dimethylformamide or N,N-diethylformamide, necessitating ready access to fume hoods. Rinsing and activation protocols necessary to reveal porosity in MOFs have also required toxic solvents such as chloroform 21 dichloromethane, or tetrahydrofuran. The synthesis of MOFs also requires time; typical solvothermal methods require incubation at elevated temperature for at least 12 hours. In contrast, the time allotted for a chemistry lab varies, 2-4 hours at the undergraduate level and 1-1.5 hours at the high school level are typical, for example, in the United States. To our knowledge, with one notable exception, previous reports discussing the use of MOFs for student laboratory exercises employ synthesis methods requiring a minimum of 3 hours, not including activation, and some syntheses necessitate incubation overnight or longer. Furthermore, standard characterization of MOFs requires expensive instruments that are unavailable in most high school and undergraduate classrooms. Previously published articles have recommended characterization using powder Xray diffraction (PXRD), gas sorption analysis, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Raman spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, differential scanning calorimetry, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; all of these instruments cost tens or hundreds of thousands of US dollars (excepting some inexpensive, low resolution FTIR instruments). As has recently been recognized, exploring and understanding the properties of MOFs by high school and undergraduate students at under-and moderately-resourced institutions must be accomplished by avenues that do not require the use of such expensive equipment.