Great Courses Organic Chem question

[shanezomom]

We signed up for GCPlus after reading about their reduced subscription fee on these boards. Thank you fellow boardies!! Ds 14 immediately started the Foundations of Organic Chemistry course just for fun and is about halfway through the 36 lectures. He teaches many of the concepts back to us just because he is excited to share it so I know he is retaining the info. I don't remember any of this stuff from my high school Biochemistry class. I feel ancient sometimes. :mellow: I'm thrilled that he is into knowledge for the sake of knowing....but I have this pesky curiosity about how to turn this into something on a transcript, or not.  

 

I think he plans on watching the Chemistry, 2nd Edition class this summer to prepare for next year's Chemistry class at co-op. Based on our co-op Biology experience this year, I'm thinking he will be over-prepared for their Chem. One of you smart moms suggested I give him a Campbell Bio text to go deeper than the Glencoe book they used in co-op this year, and ds immediately marked each section that was new or deeper and is now reading through those just because he wants to know it. He might want to supplement Chemistry next year so we'll see.

 

Should I just think of the GC Organic Chem as a fun supplement, or beef it up with related text, tie it in with the extra Campbell reading he's doing and add measurements like quizzes, etc to be more official? What would I call it? Biochemistry? Am I getting way ahead of myself?  He is already really stoked to see the connections this week in bio and chem with oxidation and wants to see more inter-connections. 

 

High school planning is fun, but also mysterious to me. With ds an only child, he's my guinea pig and I don't have the benefit of a learning curve. KWIM?

[Kim C]

We signed up for GCPlus after reading about their reduced subscription fee on these boards. Thank you fellow boardies!! Ds 14 immediately started the Foundations of Organic Chemistry course just for fun and is about halfway through the 36 lectures. He teaches many of the concepts back to us just because he is excited to share it so I know he is retaining the info. I don't remember any of this stuff from my high school Biochemistry class. I feel ancient sometimes. :mellow: I'm thrilled that he is into knowledge for the sake of knowing....but I have this pesky curiosity about how to turn this into something on a transcript, or not.  

 

I think he plans on watching the Chemistry, 2nd Edition class this summer to prepare for next year's Chemistry class at co-op. Based on our co-op Biology experience this year, I'm thinking he will be over-prepared for their Chem. One of you smart moms suggested I give him a Campbell Bio text to go deeper than the Glencoe book they used in co-op this year, and ds immediately marked each section that was new or deeper and is now reading through those just because he wants to know it. He might want to supplement Chemistry next year so we'll see.

 

Should I just think of the GC Organic Chem as a fun supplement, or beef it up with related text, tie it in with the extra Campbell reading he's doing and add measurements like quizzes, etc to be more official? What would I call it? Biochemistry? Am I getting way ahead of myself?  He is already really stoked to see the connections this week in bio and chem with oxidation and wants to see more inter-connections. 

 

High school planning is fun, but also mysterious to me. With ds an only child, he's my guinea pig and I don't have the benefit of a learning curve. KWIM?

 

We recently got the Organic Chem dvds, but ds hasn't started them yet. If he enjoys the dvds and wants to go deeper,  I was thinking of getting a text book (this one) for him to work through and calling it 'Intro to Organic Chemistry' on his transcript. Of course I'm open to suggestions on that. :)

 

Kim

[foxbridgeacademy]

Maybe he could just research specific topics from Organic Chem that interest him, do some kind of output, a paper, presentation, project, maybe 1 test and call it a half credit of Intro to Organic Chem.  Not a lot of work on your part and not to many worries about taking the fun out of what he's currently doing.

[EndOfOrdinary]

I would really try hard not to turn too much into school. He is excited and currently self directed to learn things he finds neat. Consider him taking an honors version of Co-Op. If the goal is learning, you a succeeding! Be sure the goal is not transcript credits.