Students learn to ask questions, design experiments and analyze data, facts and theories. Through discovery and discussion, they form interconnections and relate science to everyday experiences. This science course is a laboratory curriculum designed to integrate physical science, life science and earth science principles and to discover how they are integral parts of everyday life. This course is designed for college prep students.
Students study the structure, function, and behavior of living things.
Topics are presented in a visual manner and then reinforced with discussions, examples, analogies and applications. Heavy emphasis will be put on participation in laboratory experiments, completed homework assignments, simple laboratory reports, tests and group work. Occasional laboratory dissections of earthworms, clams, grasshoppers, frogs and fish encourage a sense of inquiry, organization, interpretation and application. Biology by Prentice Hall is the main textbook. This course is designed for students who are not planning to attend a four year college and wish to study the broad science of biology.