At the beginning of the semester I wondered how I was possibly going to make it to the end, and it is crazy to think that I just finished my second-to-last teaching lab. The semester flew by and ready or not, the 2021 AEE cohort will be well on our way to student teaching. While each lab is different in many ways, they all have prepared me for different methods, techniques, and strategies to utilize in the future. Engage. Explore. Explain. Extend. Evaluate. These are the 5 E's are very important in inquiry based learning for instructor and students to utilize. For the inquiry based learning lab, I decided to use the global issue of pollution for my students to research. I thought it would be a fun idea to take an issue that so many know about and teach my students basic statistics and the evolution of pollution. I decided to use a PowerPoint to help students establish a baseline of the knowledge that they would be elaborating on later. After giving my students that information, I ...