Advanced Placement Science
ADVANCED PLACEMENT BIOLOGY
Course: 203B Meets 8 periods per 6-day cycle. Credit: 1.25 Grade: 10, 11, 12 Weight: .05 NCAA Accepted |
The AP Biology course is designed to develop advanced inquiry and reasoning skills, such as analyzing data, applying mathematical routines, and connecting concepts in and across domains. Biological concepts are spread across four big ideas: 1) The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life. 2) Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain dynamic homeostasis. 3) Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes. 4) Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties.
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Prerequisites: Biology, Chemistry (may be taken concurrently)
ADVANCED PLACEMENT CHEMISTRY
Course: 215B Meets 8 periods per 6-day cycle. Credit: 1.25 Grade: 11, 12 Weight: .05 NCAA Accepted |
The Advanced Placement course is designed to be the equivalent of the general chemistry course usually taken during the first year of college and includes an extensive laboratory program. Topics include the structure of matter, states of matter, chemical reactions, chemical equilibria, chemical kinetics, and thermodynamics, and electrochemistry. The course follows the guide for A.P. Chemistry developed by the College Entrance Examination Board. Summer assignments are required.
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Prerequisites: Honors Chemistry (OR CP Chemistry with Chemistry teacher recommendation), Precalculus (may be taken concurrently)
ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Course: 222B Meets 8 periods per 6-day cycle Credit: 1.25 Grade: 10, 11, 12 Weight: .05 NCAA Accepted |
The Advanced Placement Environmental Science course is designed to be the equivalent of a one-semester introductory college course in environmental science. It is an interdisciplinary course that will apply students' prior knowledge to investigate the interrelationships of the natural world. The course will follow the outline developed by the College Examination Board. Topics covered include: ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, population dynamics, environmental toxicology, energy, air pollution, water pollution, biodiversity, soils, and solid and hazardous materials.
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Prerequisites: Biology and Chemistry (may be taken concurrently)
ADVANCED PLACEMENT PHYSICS
Course: 233B Meets 8 periods per 6-day cycle Credit: 1.25 Grade: 12 Weight: .05 NCAA Accepted |
This second-year, calculus-based physics course is designed to prepare students to take both the A.P. Physics Mechanics and the A.P. Physics Electricity and Magnetism Exams. Topics include translational and rotational motion, forces, energy, momentum, gravitation, oscillations, electric fields and potential, electric circuits, magnetism, and electromagnetism. The course follows the guide for A.P. Physics developed by the College Entrance Examination Board.
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Prerequisites: Honors Physics, AP. Calculus AB or BC (may be taken concurrently)