The best lessons in life are given to us by experience.
Experience is the best teacher.
Upon this common-sense notion, a series of chemistry classes have been designed in the manner appropriate for the 1990s. Each class has three parts to it, those essential to the scientific method-hypothesis, experiment and conclusion. Experience is often thought of as learning the hard way, but it is the contention of this teaching unit that in the context of the classroom, it is the easiest way to motivate and turn bored students into active learners. The typical approach of teaching theory first and then doing occasional lab work as illustrations of theory is a mistake because cognition is dogma unless it acts from within an immediate experience. The idea is presented to teachers to test for themselves.