I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design

welcome to I d the. I'm your host Andrew McDermott.

What do you get when you combine the fundamentals of chemistry with intelligent design

concepts and topics taught by an experienced, enthusiastic instructor in an innovative

online learning environment. You get Discovery Use High School Chemistry. I'm joined today by the woman who brings it all together,

Kristen Murray, to discuss what her class is about, why it's different than your average

chemistry course, and how the very first year of offering it at Discovery EU has gone.

Kristen has roughly 15 years of educational experience,

spanning the traditional building classroom,

online classroom, and then completed an MS in teaching through Western Washington University.

Kristen is a Washington State certified teacher

with endorsements in chemistry, biology, and general science.

She has 10 years of teaching experience within public school

districts and seven of those years were as an online instructor. Kristen,

welcome back to ID the Future. Thank you so much Andrew. It's great to be here.

I think the last time I was here we were getting ready to kick off the course.

So great to be back and give kind of a synopsis of where things ended up.

Yeah. Well for those listeners who missed our initial chat about your class last year as it was starting

to roll out, can you give us a breakdown of what the class is about?

Absolutely Andrew.

First of all, chemistry and lots and lots more of that.

So students definitely hit all the kind of nuts and bolts and fundamentals of chemistry ranging from what's an

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