7 Honors

• Thinking Like a Scientist

  • Observation vs Inference

  • Question Formulation Technique

  • Claim - Evidence - Reasoning

  • Scientific Method

  • Lab Safety

  • Experimental Design

  • Testing Claims

• Measurement

  • Length

  • Volume of a regular object

  • Volume of an irregular object

  • Mass vs Weight

  • Density

• Graphing

• Separating Mixtures (Piper)

• Chemistry 1:

  • What is matter?

  • Phases of matter

  • Phase changes

  • Heating Curve

  • Difference between Heat, Temperature and Thermal Energy

  • "Molecular Mambo"

• Chemistry 2:

  • Intro to the Periodic Table

  • Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons

  • Atomic Composition

  • Isotopes

  • Modeling

  • Synthetic Materials vs Natural Materials

• Chemistry 3:

  • Physical vs Chemical Changes

  • Physical vs Chemical Properties

  • Rate of Reaction

  • Products vs Reactants

  • Law of Conservation of Mass

  • Endothermic vs Exothermic Reactions

• Energy:

  • Potential vs Kinetic Energy

  • Relationship between Kinetic Energy, Mass, and Speed

  • Forms of Energy

  • Energy Transfer

  • Law of Conservation of Energy

  • Electric Currents and Circuits

• Thermal Energy:

  • Revisit the relationship between Temperature and KE (Molecuar Mambo)

  • Conduction / Convection / Radiation

  • Energy Transfer

  • Thermal Expansion

  • Revisit Heat, Temperature, and Thermal Energy

  • Factors affecting Thermal Energy and Temperature

• Forces:

  • What is a force?

  • Magnetism

  • Electromagnets

  • Static Electricity

  • Electricity

  • Gravity

• Waves

  • Transverse vs Longitudinal

  • Sound vs light

  • Speed of Sound in different Phases

  • Reflection of Sound

  • Doppler Effect (Sound and Light)

  • Light:

    • Reflection / Refraction / Absorption

    • Opaque / Transparent / Translucent

  • Electromagnetic Spectrum

  • Analog vs Digital

• Evolution:

  • What is evolution?

  • Darwin vs. Lamarck

  • Variation / Natural Selection

  • Adaptation (Bird Beak Lab)

  • Evidence of Evolution:

    • Fossil Record

    • DNA / Protein

    • Embryology

    • Homologous Structures

  • Cladogram

  • Artificial Selection /  Selective Breeding

• Matter and Energy (Ecology):

  • Habitat Observations:

    • Biotic vs Abiotic

• Niches: 

  • Consumers:  Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores

  • Decomposers vs Scavengers

• Food Chains, Food Webs, Energy 

Pyramids

• Oranism - Populations - Community - Ecosystems

• Ecological Relationships:  Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism, Competitive, Predator / Prey

• Affects of relationships on population size

• Limiting Factors

• Biodiversity

Science Research

In this course, you will learn how to come up with a testable problem question, design and carry out a year-long  experiment to test your hypothesis, and communicate your findings as an oral and written presentation.  

​Upon completion, you will submit your project in competition.   All decisions regarding competition submissions must be made by the end of October.​