A unit in a physical chemistry course that provides a detailed presentation of the historical development of quantum mechanics may be beneficial to students, however, the presentation of such a unit may consume a significant amount of lecture time. The exercise to be described requires students to work in teams, outside of class, to investigate the significance of a critical experiment (such as the photoelectric effect), the quantum explanation of this experiment, and the person credited with providing the quantum explanation. Each team creates a web page presentation on a different topic for a target audience. After all pages are posted on the intstructor's web site, each team reviews another team's pages. The exercise introduces students to the historical development of quantum mechanics and to the human side of science. It also provides students with practice working in teams, writing for a target audience, reviewing another's work, creating a web page, and solving problems using Maple.¹

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¹ Maple 10, Maplesoft, Waterloo, ON, Canada