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This course examines science as a whole and leads to how methods and tools provide scientists meaningful results. Topics included: chemistry to interpret chemical names, formulas, equations, and models to discover the types and properties of reactions and nuclear reactions and their uses, historical perspectives, and the social impacts. This course also explores physics, introduces topics in engineering, and the ways scientists think, communicate, and do their jobs. The topics of motion and force, including the motion of fluids and Newton’s law build a foundation to explore thermodynamics, energy, work, machines, waves, electricity, and magnetism.

Students complete 1-2 hours of laboratory assignments per week. Labs include: Speed Lab, Parachutes & Force Lab, Cartesian Diver Lab, Energy and the Trebuchet Lab, Engineering and Prototypes Lab, Understanding the Light Spectrum Lab, Doppler Effect Lab, Redesigning the Spectroscope Lab, Model Electromagnet Lab

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• LINT
• Integrated science

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Online / Virtual