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Intelligent Design the Future

Introducing Online High School Chemistry With A Design Perspective

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

4993 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

On this ID The Future, host Rob Crowther chats with Kristin Marais about her new online chemistry course launching this fall through Discovery Institute Academy. Her chemistry class is a two-semester, virtual, synchronous, and lab-based course which integrates the fundamentals of chemistry with applicable intelligent design concepts and topics. Students will progress through the course with Marais and fellow students together, with ample opportunity for real-time teacher-student engagement and student-to-student engagement. Class meets three times a week via Zoom to discuss content, ask questions, and work on problems together. Students can also utilize optional drop-in sessions after class, as well as the opportunity to set up one-to-one live video sessions with the teacher. "What's a wet lab?" Crowther asks during their discussion. Marais explains that a wet lab involves hands-on physical experiments. Students will conduct both physical and simulated virtual experiments during the state-of-the-art course, from equilibrium labs designed to see reversible reactions to reaction rate labs they'll get to design themselves. This chemistry course is unique among other available chemistry courses because it's connected to the Discovery Institute. As such, Marais will be able to connect students with questions to a global network of scientists and scholars in the intelligent design research community, as well as a mountain of books, articles, videos, and animations to help them learn more about chemistry and science in general. Learn more and register for the course today at www.discoveryinstitute.academy. Get a discount on registration through June 30th, 2023.

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0:00.0

I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design

0:12.3

welcome to ID the Future. I'm Robert Crowler with the Center for Science and Culture and even

0:17.7

though schools out for the summer, we are going to talk homeschool, online courses, and curriculum, and the new Discovery Institute Academy.

0:29.0

There are a lot of resources for parents out there for most subjects. But when it comes to high school science,

0:36.4

especially chemistry, it turns out that finding good materials is a challenge. So we at Discovery decided to take the plunge into homeschooling

0:47.2

curriculum and more than that we've developed what I think is a pretty solid

0:51.4

online chemistry course.

0:53.3

And when I say we, I mean the teacher

0:56.2

and the other people involved in that,

0:58.0

I'm not developing a curriculum or a course,

1:00.7

which is a good thing.

1:02.2

But we wanted to have a chemistry course with a live

1:05.5

teacher who can make things clear, can get kids excited about science, answer kids

1:12.0

questions. Science is not the easiest thing in the world and we really wanted to offer live

1:17.8

interaction with the first-rate teacher because that's really important to good instruction.

1:23.9

And that's why I'm happy to welcome that teacher, veteran teacher,

1:29.0

Kristen Maray, to tell us all about the new Discovery Institute Academy.

1:34.0

Welcome, Kristen.

1:35.0

Hey, thank you so much, Rob, for that really nice introduction.

1:39.0

And I second what you said.

1:41.0

It's, chemistry is difficult and challenging challenging and so there is a need to kind of put this out there.

1:46.8

Yeah, our new homeschool program, the Discovery Institute Academy,

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