Students who select this class can earn one credit in physical education and one credit in a science elective each semester. Recommendation of science or physical education department chair is required. The course should develop those problem resolution skills and strategies that students will need to be effective citizens, consumers, and workers in a scientific and technological society. This is a two-year integrated course which combines the use of several instructional components to teach basic physics concepts. The laboratory experiences apply physics principles to an industry setting.
Students gain practice in setting up experiments and manipulating machines and formulas.
In this course, students develop writing and reading skills through measuring and recording data, predicting and evaluating laboratory results, and writing laboratory reports. Credit may be earned in home economics or science. This is a one-semester elective course offered to college prep students interested in the animal sciences. Students cover taxonomy of invertebrate and vertebrate groups. Extensive lab work in cell and tissue biology involves skilled use of the microscope.