During the first week of class, strive to create an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect. This gives the students a chance to get to know you as a person, and you will also get to know them in the process. A key challenge is to make students feel comfortable with science, which many view as difficult to understand and unimportant to their daily lives. The variety of inquiry-based writing assignments and activities described in this section will help students build confidence in their abilities and convince them of the relevance of science. This free selection from the series, How to... Write to Learn Science includes the Table of Contents and two bonus sections.