Molecular Field Trips

When I look back at my school days in the seventies and early eighties I remember some great teachers, a lot of last minute swotting and some really inspiring events. There was a physics trip to Jodrell Bank to listen to far off pulsars. A geography field trip took us over the unique limestone pavement at Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales and an English Lit trip took us to Stratford-upon-Avon to see Othello performed in Shakespeare's home town.

It isn't that easy to go on a Molecular field trip - the size factor of ten to the power of minus nine doesn't help. However it struck me that in addition to all the guided e-learning, simulating, and molecular modelling, Odyssey also provided a kind of Molecular field trip. It takes students on a fascinating and inspiring field trip into the molecular world that was simply not available a few years ago. Imagine demonstrating a real-time 3D chemical reaction in the classroom!

Well, here it is - without Odyssey's motion of course: