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Welcome to the teacher page for Emily Morales
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 Organic Chemistry. Please click on your course's respective buttons at left 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 Me button or simply email me at peplabrat@gmail.com.
I currently live in lovely Loveland 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! I have been teaching high school science for the past ten years. While I love teaching physics and general chemistry, my favorite subject of all is organic chemistry: no really, I dream of molecules and the delightful movement of electrons all the time. 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 just completed 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. During Summer 2018, 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 (boasting an extensive evolution library of nearly one hundred books), 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. I just picked up a job writing weekly online articles for Salvo Magazine, along with publishing some work in their quarterly printed magazine. The magazine addresses issues surrounding sex, society and science from a Christian perspective, not shrinking from any topic of controversy. I would encourage you to have your high school and college students read the articles! My newest science interest is astronomy and cosmogeny (origins of the universe); I have known the handiwork of the Heavenly Engineer in the arena of the tiny, and now 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!
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Nanocar ball-and-stick model in banner retrieved from: http://news.rice.edu/2015/12/14/rice-to-enter-first-international-nanocar-race/
Nanocar with fullerene wheels in banner by Materialscientist at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16454593
Glucose ball-and-stick model retrieved from: https://www.thoughtco.com/pathway-most-atp-per-glucose-molecule-608200
