...With the opportunity to safely ask questions and fill in gaps in their background knowledge, students can gain a satisfying sense of mastery and even enjoyment. I also enjoy working with advanced students, supporting their curiosity and developing the finer points of their understanding in an at... (read more)
...The story was framed as a murder mystery to investigate if the victim's mother killed her daughter. The class went on an investigation utilizing their conversions to moles to grams and to particle count to determine if the mother killed the daughter. In the end, it was discovered there were foreign contaminants in the pills which we discovered through mass spectrometry data. (read more)