Secondary Science
Goals:
Goal 1: The district will support the implementation of the guaranteed and viable curriculum by providing high quality instructional materials and ongoing professional learning aligned to evidence based best practice.
Goal 2: Teachers will implement district curriculum to support student sense-making that provides all students with opportunities to investigate and generate scientific explanations of phenomena observed in the world around them.
Goal 3: Students, actively engaged in inquiry-based learning, will critically analyze information sources, evaluate evidence, and construct well-reasoned scientific arguments based on reliable data.
5E Learning Cycle
Individual science lessons and activities are taught using the 5E learning cycle.
The 5E learning cycle allows students to develop an understanding through engagement and exploration. These experiences allow students to understand the concept, even define it, before a term is presented. This gives students the opportunity to "discover" the concepts on their own and experiences to connect the terms to once they are introduced. Students can then elaborate, or apply, the new concepts to related phenomena for a deeper understanding.
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Middle School Courses
- Science 6 (26250)
- Advanced Science 6 (26251)
- Science 7 (27250)
- Advanced Science 7 (27251)
- Science 8 (28250)
- Integrated Science Honors (28253)
High School Courses
- Advanced Chemistry I (0725)
- Advanced Chemistry II (60720)
- AP Biology (0716)
- AP Chemistry (0731)
- AP Environmental Science (60742)
- AP Physics I: Algebra Based Physics (0761)
- AP Physics II: Algebra Based Physics (0762)
- AP Physics C: Calculus Based Physics (0759)
- Anatomy and Physiology (0727)
- Astronomy (0744)
- Chemistry (0735)
- Chemistry Honors (0730)
- Earth Science (0740)
- Earth Science Honors (0745)
- General Biology (0700)
- General Biology Honors (0705)
- Genetics (0739)
- Integrated Science (0717)
- Integrated Science Honors (60721)
- PLTW Principles of Biomedical Science (60722 or 1075)
- PLTW Human Body Systems (60731 or 1082)
- Scientific Research and Design (0748)
- Molecular Gas I (0708)
- Molecular Gas II (0709)
- Ecology I (0711)
- Ecology II (0712)
- Engineering (0714)
- Urban Conservation I (0721)
- Urban Conservation II (0729)
- Meteorology I (0747)
- Meteorology II (0766)
- STEM I (0752)
- STEM II (0753)
- Acoustics (0754)
- Astrophysics (0755)
- Forensics I (0746)
- Forensics II (0767)
- Microbiology I (0768)
- Microbiology II (0769)
- Competitions (60748)