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First, thanks for reading. And second, share often and share liberally. About 150+ days ago SARS-CoV-2 and the debilitating disease it causes COVID-19 were scientific unknowns to the American public. Of course, that is not the case today. And since March 2020 interest in the virus and the disease it causes has dominated scientific inquiry.

2YC Editor's note: Please welcome Jennie Kong Mayer as a new 2YC (Two Year College) lead contributor for ChemEd X. Jennie is a faculty member at Bellevue College near Seattle, WA. She earned a master's degree in chemistry from the University of California, Riverside, studying gas phase ion chemistry with Prof. Tom Morton.

Over the past several months, as we've all attempted to embrace Remote Learning, there is a topic that has repeatedly surfaced and clearly merits discussion: Online Chemistry Labs. From Stacey Lowery Bretz's early call to lab course justification in her J. Chem.

The 2020 global pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 forced millions of teachers to switch from in-person to online instruction. With minimal training in online teaching, many substandard learning environments (including my own online chemistry class) were quickly rolled out.

Editor's introduction: Please welcome Kathy Carrigan as a new 2YC (Two-Year College) monthly lead contributor. A seasoned veteran Kathy recently retired from Portland Community College (OR) after 22 years with a rank of full-time Chemistry Instructor.

First, thanks for reading. The ongoing global human tragedy of the spread of the COVID-19 disease and the suffering caused by the infective agent- the SARS-CoV-2 virus- have ironically provided an excellent opportunity to include in our classes the ways of science and its ways of knowing, measuring, confirming, refuting, verifying, and validating.

Humans discovered the agriculture of cereal grains, developed communities around their fields, and promptly began brewing.

A good deal of evidence indicates that wearing facial masks inhibits the spread of COVID-19.^1-4 The spread of the virus appears to occur via airborne transmission.

Co-Authored by Dean J. Campbell*, Kristine Campbell*, and Katie Campbell, *Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois

What is Metacognition?

Editor's introduction: Please welcome Dr. Tom Cox as a new 2YC (Two-Year College) lead contributor.

For the past few years, we have started our organic unit with a card sorting activity meant to introduce students to the relationship between the structure of a molecule and its name.