Connetquot High School Advanced Placement Science Courses

Full Year Year Course, 1.0 credit

Prerequisites: Completion of 8th Grade Accelerated Earth and Space Sciences AND 8th Grade Algebra with course and Regents exam grades of 95 or higher. Additionally, ONLY students who have a quarterly test average of 95 in both courses will be recommended to take this class. We strongly encourage students to co-enroll in Science Research. 

Description: Students will sit for both the AP Exam in Biology and the Regents in Life Science: Biology. This college-level course requires students to read, outline and perform online assignments and to apply the information that they learn. This is a rigorous, fast-paced, hands-on course. Students should take this course only if they have the maturity to work at this level as a ninth grader. Students will be expected to work independently on some assignments and be a productive member of a group. Students will also complete the mandatory Regents Life Science: Biology investigations as guided by NYSED. This course will meet 10 periods per week. This course has a summer assignment.

Lab Requirement: 1200 minutes of lab time including mandatory state lab investigations:

-Balancing Act

-For the Birds

-Lactose Tolerance

Commencement Level Exams: 

Advanced Placement Biology

Life Sciences: Biology

Full Year Course, 1.0 credit

Prerequisites:  Completion of Regents Earth and Space Sciences, Honors or Regents Life Science: Biology and Honors or Regents Chemistry, with course and Regents grades of 90 or higher and suggested completion of/current enrollment in Physics. 

Description: This course is intended for the highly motivated, academically oriented student who plans to go on to college. The course is the equivalent of a first year college biology course, and the laboratory work and final examination will reflect this level of difficulty and demand on the student's time. It is strongly recommended that students take the Advanced Placement Examination in Biology. The course will cover many of the same topics examined in Regents Life Science: Biology, but the expected level of understanding is that of a college student. This course will meet 7.5 periods per week. This course has a summer assignment.

Exam: 

Advanced Placement Biology

Full Year Course, 1.0 credit

Prerequisites: Students should have completed Earth and Space Sciences, Life Science: Biology, and Chemistry, with a grade of 90 in each course and on each Regents exam. It is suggested for students to have completed or to be currently enrolled in Physics to take this course. 

Description: This course is the equivalent of a one-semester introductory college course in environmental science. The goal of this course is to provide students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world, understand and analyze environmental problems, identify risks associated with these problems, and examine solutions. This course meets 7.5 periods per week. This course has a summer assignment.

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Advanced Placement Environmental Science

Full Year Course, 1.0 credit

Prerequisites: Completion of Regents Earth and Space Sciences, Honors Life Science: Biology and Honors Chemistry with course and Regents grades of 90 or higher and suggested completion of/ current enrollment in Physics. Students need to have completed or be concurrently enrolled in Pre-Calculus. 

Description: This course is intended for the highly motivated, academically oriented student who plans to go to college. The course is the equivalent of a first year college course in Chemistry, and the laboratory work and final examination will reflect this level of difficulty and demand on the student's time. It is strongly recommended that students take the Advanced Placement Examination in Chemistry. The course will cover many of the same topics examined in Regents Chemistry but the level of understanding anticipated is that of a college student. This course will meet 7.5 periods per week. This course has a summer assignment.

Exam:

Advanced Placement Chemistry

Full Year Course, 1.0 credit

Prerequisites:  Honors Chemistry, Algebra and Geometry with minimum course and Regents exam grades of 85 or higher, or previous enrollment in Regents or Honors Physics. 

Pre or Corequisite:  Algebra II 

Description: AP Physics 1 is algebra-based, covering roughly the first semester of a college-level algebra-based introductory physics course. The topics covered in the class include kinematics, Newtonian mechanics, momentum, energy, rotational motion, and fluids. It is designed to allow students to develop deep understandings of concepts and to apply their knowledge through inquiry-based investigations. Students will take the AP Physics 1 Exam in May. Students who have not yet taken the Regents exam in Physics will take it in June. Students taking the Regents exam are required to complete the state-mandated lab investigations, as guided by NYSED. This class meets 7.5 periods per week. This course has a summer assignment.

Commencement Level Exams: 

Advanced Placement Physics 1

Students who have not yet taken the Physics Regents exam will take it in June. 

Full Year Course, 1.0 credit

Prerequisite: AP Physics 1

Corequisite:  AP Calculus BC

Description: This challenging course forms the first part of the college sequence that serves as the foundation in physics for students majoring in the physical sciences or engineering. The sequence is parallel to mathematics courses that include AP Calculus BC. Methods of calculus are used wherever appropriate in formulating physical principles and in applying them to physical problems. Strong emphasis is placed on solving a variety of challenging problems, some requiring calculus. The subject matter of the AP Physics C course focuses on mechanics and electricity, as well as magnetism, with approximately equal emphasis on both of these. The AP Physics C course is the first part of a sequence which, in many colleges, is a very intensive one-year course. This class meets for 7.5 periods per week. 

Exam:

Advanced Placement Physics C