Welcome to Chemistry! A knowledge of chemistry is useful to almost everyone. Chemistry occurs all around us all of the time, and an understanding of chemistry is useful to doctors, lawyers, mechanics, business people, and firefighters among others. Chemistry is important. There is no doubt about that. It lies at the heart of our efforts to produce new materials that make our lives safer and easier, to produce new sources of energy that are abundant and nonpolluting, and to understand and control the many diseases that threaten us and our food supplies. Even if your future career does not require the daily use of chemical principles, your life will be greatly influenced by chemistry.

Units of Study

• Introduction to Chemistry

• Climate Change

• Atomic Structure

• Nuclear Chemistry

• Chemical Reactions

• Electrons in Atoms

• Periodic Table

• Ionic Compounds

• Covalent Compounds

• Chemical Quantities/Stoichiometry

Welcome to Environmental Science! Environmental Science is an exciting and unique subject as it incorporates the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities in a holistic study of our world.  Through this course, students will develop their ability to think and act like scientists as they engage in practices universal to all fields of science.  A special emphasis will be placed on understanding the impacts that human activities have on the environment and evaluating potential solutions.

Units of Study

• Physics of the Earth System

• Dynamic Earth Systems

• Matter & Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems

• Interdependent Relationships

• Human Activity & Sustainability

• Human Activity and Climate

• Human Activity and Energy