Fee: Note packet required, price TBD (~$10.00)
Learning Recommendations:
- Successful completion of SCI125 – Chemistry Lab Methods
- Proficiency in lab technique, grade level reading, and graphing
General Description
- Year-long course, which fulfills a lab science requirement for graduation and college entrance.
- Provides a knowledge base that helps students understand the nature of life and prepares them to make informed decisions about health, medicine, genetics, and the environment.
- Emphasis on using the scientific practices, focusing on developing and using models, constructing explanations, and engaging in evidenced-based reasoning.
- Successful completion of this course supports students as they prepare for the Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science (WCAS).
- This course fulfills college prep requirements as outlined by the Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC) as a lab-based science course.
Content
- Students will be actively engaged in learning and experiencing the following:
- o Ecology, specifically matter and energy in ecosystems, population dynamics, and human impact on the biosphere.
- o Cellular biology, energetics, cell growth and division.
- o Genetics, including molecular inheritance, genetic regulation of processes, and biotechnology.
- o Evolution of populations, biodiversity and modern classification.
- o Ecosystem interactions, including group behavior.
- Skills taught in this course:
- o Laboratory techniques
- o Use and care of microscopes
- o Problem solving and critical thinking strategies
- o Data analysis and graphic techniques
Equipment to be provided by student: set of colored pencils, journal or notebook, basic calculator, 3-ring binder, bound composition book (graph paper preferred), No. 2 pencils, 2 colors of pen.