Chemistry

Welcome to the Chemistry News website. Here, you can find articles on everything chemistry-related at Palmer. 

Course Content

Here are Palmer, students who take Chemistry are expected to do the following:

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• Questioning and predicting

  • Demonstrating a sustained intellectual curiosity about a specific scientific topic
    or problem of personal interest​

  • Making observations aimed at identifying their own questions. These might include increasingly complex ones or ones about the natural world

  • Formulating multiple hypotheses and predicting the corresponding outcomes

• Planning and conducting​

  • ​Planning. selecting, and using appropriate investigation methods, including field work and lab experiments, to collect reliable data (both qualitative and quantitative) collaboratively and/or individually

  • Assessing risks and addressing ethical, cultural, and/or environmental issues
    associated with their own proposed methods and those of others

  • Selecting and using appropriate equipment, including digital devices and technologies,
    to systematically and accurately collect and record data

  • Ensuring that safety and ethical guidelines are followed in their own investigations and experiments