Dear Chemistry Educator, It is very difficult to communicate here the immense wealth of teaching power contained in the HOLY MOL-EE! Chemistry Curriculum. I am teaching high school chemistry currently (2008) at a school district in the Los Angeles area and use HOLY MOL-EE! myself. I am very pleased with the response of the majority of my students. (See testimonials.)

These materials have been carefully developed over six years’ time, based on my own teaching experiences, with excruciating attention to the tiny, and seemingly insignificant, details which become major stumbling blocks to students as they learn a new concept, topic or skill.

The question I kept asking was, “Why don’t they get this the first time and how can I help them do so?”

The result of this inquiry is the HOLY MOL-EE! Package. Departing from the old model of expecting a bell curve distribution of grades, it presumes that all students CAN learn well if something is presented to them in a way that they can understand.

In searching for “what worked,” I felt drawn to using multiple ways of presenting material. Hence, HOLY MOL-EE! contains songs, dance, dramatization, creative visuals, manipulative activities and guided fill-in-the-blank notes, as well as more traditional materials -- whatever is needed to completely get the point across to a wide variety of learning styles. Many students who would have otherwise failed can now succeed.

Another great strength of the HOLY MOL-EE! Learning System is its extreme attention to detail. Each concept in the curriculum is analyzed and broken down into a sequence of bite-sized chunks of information, simple statements, each of which may be presented, expressed or explained in about 60 seconds. In practice, you test as you teach whether or not students “get” each point before you move on to the next. This, combined with the prepared fill-in-the-blank notes and supporting activities and worksheets, keeps the class with you the entire time. And they learn!

Important to HOLY MOL-EE! is its treatment of word definitions. All new words in the teaching outline are defined, along with their Latin, Greek or Arabic roots. When students learn the roots of words and why a particular word was chosen to describe a concept or phenomenon, it helps them remember the modern definitions. These definitions are then expanded as necessary through the use of multiple modality teaching.

Thus, HOLY MOL-EE! gives students an absolutely solid foundation of understanding and a strong basis for further study in the text. For many students, HOLY MOL-EE! makes the difference between failure and success.

Look at the list of learning outcomes students will be able to know or do after using HOLY MOL-EE! Some of the items which seem tiny or unimportant are actually VERY important, because they lay the foundation for everything else.

This product could be the best thing to happen to you as a chemistry teacher, so I hope you'll take the time to investigate a bit.

Looking forward to meeting you.

Sincerely,

Lynda J Jones