Pity you can't get an extra pass for your professor. -- that'd probably be an A+++ in the course right there!
If the shuttle launch stuff is particularly relevant to the chapter material, maybe instead of an extra-credit report, you could put together a presentation -- spend half an hour or so of class time showing pictures, describing the launch, and explaining some researched materials on the science that this mission will be doing, and the relevance of chemistry to the space program. Lots of instructors really love having other people fill class time for them. :-)
(I am sort of thinking about this by analogy to a political science class -- I knew some people in my department who missed classes last November because they were off doing things like get-out-the-vote, and I think any political science professor who penalized them for that would have been *insane*. I think the same thing happened this quarter, with people going off to Washington for inaugural festivities -- I know one professor even cancelled class because *she* had tickets to the inauguration itself.)
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If the shuttle launch stuff is particularly relevant to the chapter material, maybe instead of an extra-credit report, you could put together a presentation -- spend half an hour or so of class time showing pictures, describing the launch, and explaining some researched materials on the science that this mission will be doing, and the relevance of chemistry to the space program. Lots of instructors really love having other people fill class time for them. :-)
(I am sort of thinking about this by analogy to a political science class -- I knew some people in my department who missed classes last November because they were off doing things like get-out-the-vote, and I think any political science professor who penalized them for that would have been *insane*. I think the same thing happened this quarter, with people going off to Washington for inaugural festivities -- I know one professor even cancelled class because *she* had tickets to the inauguration itself.)