I grew up in the American education system, attending a small high school in rural Minnesota. My timetable was very different than what I have experienced as a teacher in England. I had science every morning for an hour – roughly 700 hours across my high school experience.
From all that time, the most prevalent memory I have is of our week-long investigation attempting to find the percentage of copper in a penny. I recall getting a result of 120 per cent copper content and having to reflect on why (turns out I didn’t let it dry properly before measuring its mass, a rookie error). Nearly 25 years later I believe that that practical experience heavily influenced my decision to study chemistry after high school.
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