The Morristown UU Fellowship is jointly sponsoring with UU FaithAction NJ an online Biochemistry Literacy program for UU-associated children and their friends around NJ as a supplemental RE program. The course is slated to run in the 2025 church year on the schedule listed below. All classes meet online from 6:00 to 7:30 pm Eastern time via Zoom. Recommended ages for the course material are ages 11 through 17.
You can review the course material at: https://biochemistryliteracyforkids.com/
| Sept 21 | Nov 16 | Jan 25 |
| Sept 28 | Nov 23 | Feb 1 |
| Oct 5 | Dec 7 | Feb 8 |
| Oct 12 | Dec 14 | Feb 15 |
| Oct 19 | Dec 21 | Feb 22 |
| Oct 26 | Jan 4 | Mar 1 |
| Nov 2 | Jan 11 | Mar 8 |
| Nov 9 | Jan 18 | Mar 15 |
- Dr. Daniel Fried, author of the Biochemistry Literacy for Kids course, will provide an introductory lesson.
- Tom Moran, along with at least one adult mentor, will lead the class and review lessons with the students online every week for the duration of the course. There are 24 chapters, so there will be 24 sessions.
- Students are be required to make a reasonable commitment to the class.
- Student families will be expected to pay the fee for enrollment. This is $140 for the 24 lessons and a molecular modeling kit. There are funds available for a limited number of scholarships.
- Scholarship cases will be taken up and scholarship funds sought through various means for students for which the fee is an obstacle.
Dr. Daniel Fried is a Binghamton University B.S., Yale University, M.S./Ph.D., and Post Doc Weizmann Institute of Science trained biochemist. Dr. Fried has been a Professor at Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, NJ.
Dr. Daniel Fried is breaking ground in introducing advanced concepts in biochemistry to young people through focused online learning.
No matter what science our kids are interested in, these lessons are eye-opening in their depth and breadth, and can only make any area of science study richer.
The course fee is $140 for Lessons 1-24, one organic molecule modeling kit is included in that $140 fee. By design, the course will move through 24 lessons in 24 weeks, with a 1.5-hour online lesson each week. There will be homework, and each week the students will go through a lesson with one or more mentors to guide the study. Homework will take an additional two hours per week.
A program like this could open up a new area of scientific interest for UU young people. This program has the potential to enhance and make real the UU RE mission of upholding the scientific method. Perhaps most importantly it will raise the level of knowledge among UU young people of one of the most scientifically and philosophically important areas of contemporary science.
