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I am so glad you stopped by my teacher page. This is the place where I will post all of the assignments, schedules, calendars, laboratories and resources for your chemistry class. Please click on the chemistry button above for information concerning your class and for access to these resources. If you need to contact me for any reason, you may click on the Contact button (below) or simply email me at [email protected]. Under the Skeptics Forum button in the menu bar, you may locate additional fabulous resources for learning more about intelligent design.
I just moved to lovely Loveland from Springboro, and live with my husband and sons, Steven and David, along with our two dogs - a chocolate lab named Walter, and a French bulldog named Bridget. We have been known to keep rats for pets as well - they are not only excellent experimental subjects, but very affectionate pets. They are like miniature puppies! If you know anyone interested in some wonderful clean, albino fancy rats, I know a great resource!
My sons attended Veritas for about five years, and had a great time! They so appreciated their caring teachers, such as Mrs. Hutton, Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Rosa, Mrs. Bush, Mrs. Knecht, Mrs. Birdwell, and Mrs. Byrd - to name a few! I felt very fortunate to have them attend classes taught by these wonderful women. I am so pleased to return to Veritas as an instructor in chemistry - I think about molecules, atoms, and electrons all the time... no kidding! It is fascinating how such a tiny system of charges and masses dictate the nature of everything we observe.
I graduated from California State University, Fresno, summa cum laude with a B.S. in Molecular Biology and minor in Cognitive Psychology. The science courses I took in college were so much fun, I did not ever want to graduate. To satisfy my affinity for learning science over what could have been summers of cognitive desolation, I kept myself occupied conducting research in fields as diverse as genetics, microbiology, behavioral psychology, immunology, and scanning tunneling microscopy. I am currently working on a Master's in Instructional Design and Technology at University of Cincinnati, as well as a Certificate in Christian Apologetics from the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.
This past summer I was accepted into the Discovery Institute's Seminar in Intelligent Design program in Seattle, and was treated to nine days of high level science proffered through authors such as Michael Behe, Stephen Meyer, Ann Gauger, Luke Barnes, Richard Sternberg, Jonathan Wells, Jay Richards, Guillermo Gonzales, J.P. Moreland, and Brian Miller. The program required two months of reading in advance, from many books, and a multitude of articles from science journals. The seminar left me accepting - based upon the scientific evidence - the necessity for a designing intelligence, in the creation of the Universe, the Earth, and origins of life. As a past Darwinist, this evidence was very important to me - and provided much in the way of apologetic arguments I am more than happy to share with students.
My newest science interest is astronomy; I have known the handiwork of the Heavenly Engineer in the arena of the tiny, and now I am enthralled observing His handiwork in the arena of the quite large. As one gets to appreciate an artist by studying their works, similarly, in studying the natural world one can revere and get to know the One who engineered an expanding universe - following predictable laws. This is what the very godly scientists such as Johannes Kepler, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and Gregor Mendel (to name only a few) understood. To be a scientist in their day, was to do the Lord's work - now this is a calling I for one could not refuse!
I just moved to lovely Loveland from Springboro, and live with my husband and sons, Steven and David, along with our two dogs - a chocolate lab named Walter, and a French bulldog named Bridget. We have been known to keep rats for pets as well - they are not only excellent experimental subjects, but very affectionate pets. They are like miniature puppies! If you know anyone interested in some wonderful clean, albino fancy rats, I know a great resource!
My sons attended Veritas for about five years, and had a great time! They so appreciated their caring teachers, such as Mrs. Hutton, Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Rosa, Mrs. Bush, Mrs. Knecht, Mrs. Birdwell, and Mrs. Byrd - to name a few! I felt very fortunate to have them attend classes taught by these wonderful women. I am so pleased to return to Veritas as an instructor in chemistry - I think about molecules, atoms, and electrons all the time... no kidding! It is fascinating how such a tiny system of charges and masses dictate the nature of everything we observe.
I graduated from California State University, Fresno, summa cum laude with a B.S. in Molecular Biology and minor in Cognitive Psychology. The science courses I took in college were so much fun, I did not ever want to graduate. To satisfy my affinity for learning science over what could have been summers of cognitive desolation, I kept myself occupied conducting research in fields as diverse as genetics, microbiology, behavioral psychology, immunology, and scanning tunneling microscopy. I am currently working on a Master's in Instructional Design and Technology at University of Cincinnati, as well as a Certificate in Christian Apologetics from the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.
This past summer I was accepted into the Discovery Institute's Seminar in Intelligent Design program in Seattle, and was treated to nine days of high level science proffered through authors such as Michael Behe, Stephen Meyer, Ann Gauger, Luke Barnes, Richard Sternberg, Jonathan Wells, Jay Richards, Guillermo Gonzales, J.P. Moreland, and Brian Miller. The program required two months of reading in advance, from many books, and a multitude of articles from science journals. The seminar left me accepting - based upon the scientific evidence - the necessity for a designing intelligence, in the creation of the Universe, the Earth, and origins of life. As a past Darwinist, this evidence was very important to me - and provided much in the way of apologetic arguments I am more than happy to share with students.
My newest science interest is astronomy; I have known the handiwork of the Heavenly Engineer in the arena of the tiny, and now I am enthralled observing His handiwork in the arena of the quite large. As one gets to appreciate an artist by studying their works, similarly, in studying the natural world one can revere and get to know the One who engineered an expanding universe - following predictable laws. This is what the very godly scientists such as Johannes Kepler, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and Gregor Mendel (to name only a few) understood. To be a scientist in their day, was to do the Lord's work - now this is a calling I for one could not refuse!
