Your grade in the course will be determined by the number of technologies which you master. Although this is not a lab course, it is very much a course about doing things. You will not only read about these landmark technologies, you will be expected to make things like paper and metals and batteries from scratch. By the time you have completed the course, you will have an intimate knowledge of most of the top 25 chemicals used in modern industry. The unit of work for this course is the project .
Most projects consist of a written quiz and a product.
To get credit for a project you must have a perfect quiz and your product must meet the specifications outlined in each project description. No credit is given for a quiz without its associated product or for a product without its associated quiz except as described below. Your projects will be documented in your notebook . These projects deal with brain tools rather than physical products. That is, a group of you will band together and work on the project as a group.