The role of Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry in high school and freshman undergraduate courses has been talked about pretty regularly.
Most textbooks contain a chapter on organic and one on biochemistry.
Some years we teachers get to it and some other years we don't. I am currently in a school district that is experimenting with the use of Integrated Science courses and those two topics seem to be a wonderful integration of several different topics in science. I normally like to talk about how I use material in my own classroom in this column, and this time I have an end of the year lesson that I am pretty happy to share with you. My first day lecture for biochemistry is probably pretty much like everybody else's. We cover the different types of biomolecules, like carbohydrates and lipids.