This semester I
am no less busy because I am teaching three classes in two different schools;
general biology, environmental science, and respiratory care science. Before
this semester I never heard of “respiratory care science”, but I was hired due
to my having taught both chemistry and biology at the college level. Even
though I need to prepare extensively for this class, I enjoy teaching a college class that involves both chemistry and physics.
Since this is
the second semester I am teaching environmental science in a college setting,
the need for another edition of the lab manual has become all the more evident.
In addition to adding more activities, I intend to write up alternate versions
of the more difficult activities so all of them can be executed and written up by
average students with approximately the same amount of effort. By making the
labs more “uniform”, students who miss different labs are penalized equally. I already do
this during my classes by means of “ad lib” editing of the activities. Some of
these simplifications have already been documented in this blog. The next step
is to put all of this in writing. Those of you who purchased the first edition can
purchase the second edition for the cost of printing and shipping. I want to make things right for
those of you who gave me the benefit of a doubt on the first book I ever wrote.
