Covering electron configuration, Theresa Sager’s Chemistry class test their knowledge through elemental experiments. Sophomore Nicole Vargas and the rest of her class used a common pantry staple as the foundation of the experiment. “This assignment mainly was just learning how to understand beans as an element,” Vargas said. “We learned how you would weigh them and how you take the average of the weight and find out the information as if it was an actual element.”