October 23 was a special date for chemists everywhere. On 10/23 at 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m., Mole Day was celebrated. Mole Day is a national holiday and gets its name and celebratory times from the numbers in Avogadro’s constant, which is approximately 6.022 x 10 (to the 23rd power), defining the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in a mole, one of the seven base SI units. A mole is the amount of a substance that contains as many particles as there are atoms in exactly 12g of carbon-12. Naturally, our science students here at PHS were up to the celebration.
Our chemistry teacher, Mrs. Clement celebrated Mole Day with her chemistry st
udents and it seemed to have a positive effect among the students. “Mole day was created by an unknown chemistry teacher (I have a sneaky suspicion that it might be Mrs. Clement) and it has to do with October 23rd,” said junior Cody Krasny. “There’s moles in chemistry and there’s a national mole day so that’s why we celebrate it,” said Mrs. Clement.
udents and it seemed to have a positive effect among the students. “Mole day was created by an unknown chemistry teacher (I have a sneaky suspicion that it might be Mrs. Clement) and it has to do with October 23rd,” said junior Cody Krasny. “There’s moles in chemistry and there’s a national mole day so that’s why we celebrate it,” said Mrs. Clement.Celebrating Mole Day not only has a learning advantage, but the chemistry class also had a party to celebrate this special event. “We got to eat food and make party hats. We did mole jokes and wrote mole songs. It was really fun,” said junior Brittney Houser. Of course, some of the foods definitely related to moles. “We ate guacamole because it has to do with guaca-MOLE-e, and we had cookies,” explained Krasny.
The activities done on the day the class celebrated Mole Day were done to help students understand the concepts a little more in a different way than just the regular learning. Junior Kayla Clark thought learning this way was a great idea. “Well, we were learning about Avogadro’s number and we learned about how it tied in with Mole Day and all of the details.” The thought of having a party in chemistry that day had students eager to get to class. Making learning fun can eliminate some of the stress that learning can sometimes bring about. Taking time to do fun things, like celebrating Mole Day, that goes along with your text can make you look at things from a different view and it may explain things more clearly.
