ML Science 8 Honors encourages independent study and a more in-depth approach to the topics. Essay tests and activities that encourage independent research are incorporated with each unit of material. This course will fulfill one-half of the graduation requirement of two years of laboratory science. Earth and Space Science I Earth and Space Science is offered beginning at the freshman level as an introductory two semester course. The major theme is the universality of change, from weather and the rock cycle through plate tectonics to postulated changes in the make up and arrangement of the universe.
Laboratory investigations develop important inquiry skills.
I is currently offered as an introductory life science for college bound students. It encompasses an introduction to biology, cell biology, cell chemistry, energetic of biology, cellular and organismal reproduction, genetics, evolution and ecology. The majority of the students are in their first science course at the high school and will continue on in a college preparation program. Zoology is taught at a level with higher expectations than a first year biology program. It encompasses an Introduction to the living animal, Continuity and Evolution of animal life, and the Diversity of animal life, with emphasis on the similarities and differences in structure and function of systems as the students progress through the animal kingdom from the primitive to the most complex.