In preparing for some careers, it is recommended that students take specific science courses in high school. Talk with the science instructors or counselors for further information about a specific career. All prerequisites must be successfully completed. A one semester course offered to students in Grades 11 and 12. Field studies projects, demonstrations and reports dealilng with current ecological and environmental importance and a survey of occupations in these areas make up the course content.
Emphasis is placed on the wise use of our natural resources.
Students become aware of present and possible future problems. An attempt is also made to determine what can be done to meet a conservation crisis, individual or professional. In Biology students explore major ideas about living things that are important to all people. Students are challenged to gain an appreciation of life and their relationship to it. Laboratory exercises, demonstrations, and class discussions are methods used to study the likenesses and differences in living things.