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Grades: 11, 12
Course Description: The content is divided into three sections with correlating laboratory exercises: molecules and cells; heredity and evolution; and organisms and populations. Students also explore energy transfer, continuity and change, the relationship of structure to function, regulation, interdependence in nature, and the balance of science, technology, and nature.
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Course Description: This course is designed to acquaint students with the physical, ecological, social, and political principles of environmental science.
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| Applied Physics with Technology 1 & 2 |
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Course Description: This course introduces students to physics through real-life technological applications. Discussions include mechanical systems, fluid systems, electrical systems and thermal systems.
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Course Description: This introductory course presents the terminology used in astronomy, a historical perspective on the subject, and current thinking about our universe. The second half unit of this course presents a description of the universe beyond the solar system.
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Course Description: Biology is the study of life forms. This course provides an introduction to biology, the study of life, and ecology, the study of how organism react with each other and their environment. This course will cover biochemistry, genetics and inheritance, DNA, chromosomes and genetic technology.
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Course Description: In this course, the students study the properties of matter and its interactions with the environment, the importance of laboratory safety, the importance of accuracy and precision in measurements, scientific notation, significant digits, the structures and the components of atoms and compounds, covalent and ionic chemical compounds, and writing and balancing chemical equations.
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| Conservation of Natural Resources |
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Course Description: Students will learn about our natural resources and how they contribute to our lives.
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Course Description: Students will learn about the science behind recent natural disasters involving hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Students will learn the structure of the atmosphere and how it makes life on earth possible.
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Course Description: This course helps students understand how the earth works as a whole.
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Course Description: Forensic science applies scientific knowledge to the criminal justice system.
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Course Description: This course introduces the science of geology, with emphasis on the mutual effects of geologic processes and human life.
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Course Description: How does the human body do what it does? This question is answered in this class through an in-depth study of systems in the human body, including the digestive, respiratory, immune, circulation, and reproductive systems.
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Course Description: In this introductory course, students will explore agriculture’s past, present, and future.
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| Introduction to Veterinary Science |
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Course Description: The basic concepts of veterinary medicine are presented. The course focuses on the different body systems of the major species of pets and domesticated agricultural animals.
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Course Description: In this non mathematical look at meteorology students will learn why the earth has seasons and how severe weather in the atmosphere affects weather.
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Course Description: The topics provided in this course relate scientific information to useful applications in plant and animal production through a broad introduction to the agricultural industry.
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| Physical & Earth Science 1 & 2 |
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Course Description: This course is the first in a two-semester series. These courses provide an introduction to the basic principles of physics, chemistry, Earth science, space science, and the use of basic mathematics in these areas, using logical methods and practical applications.
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Course Description: These courses examine the many aspects of the nature of matter and energy, including: motion, forces, energy, simple machines, electricity and magnetism, radioactivity, waves, and light.
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Course Description: This course is an introduction to the broad world of matter and energy. Topics covered include motion, forces, energy, momentum, gravitation, fluid mechanics, heat, thermodynamics, waves, and sound.
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| The Underground World of Caves |
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Course Description: A theoretical and practical study of caves, this course examines the geology and ecology of these formations, and it describes safe methods of cave exploration.
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Course Description: This course covers the science of manipulating wildlife systems to achieve desired goals.
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