Please share this information with your parents. Have them sign at the end of this document to indicate that they have seen it. It is important that everyone have the same understanding about this semester long learning experience. This class provides an introduction to high school science. The curriculum is composed mostly of Earth and physical science.
Life science is the focus of the second year of high school science.
This course is designed as a hands-on kind of class. Students learn by doing science activities both in the classroom and at our outdoor study sites. These activities include learning activities to model science concepts, actual scientific field research to use and share with schools around the world, experiments to help students better understand the concepts we cover, as well as computer based research and study. Because of unique activity focus of this class, it is important that the atmosphere of the classroom be one in which learning is the focus. With this in mind, I have compiled a list of the basics .