Science

Physical Science

This course fulfills one science credit required for graduation. Physical Science is a concentration on the composition and properties of matter examining forces and predicting and developing explanations for changes in motion.  The course also looks at the conservation of energy, energy transformations, and applications of energy to everyday life and types and properties of waves and the use of waves in communication devices with integration of science and engineering practices.

Honors Biology

This course fulfills one science credit required for graduation.  This course also fulfills the “Biology” graduation requirement. 

 Honors Biology is an advanced inquiry-based course with engineering design integration focused on patterns, processes, and

 interactions among living organisms including structures and processes, ecosystems, heredity, and unity and diversity. The

 course is offered for those students who have displayed a basic understanding of biological principles from previous

 introductions.  The content of the course will reinforce these earlier concepts and expand or introduce concepts that were not

 addressed in previous courses.  The basic concepts for this course will be taken from the Alabama Course of Study: Core

 Content for Biology, but these concepts will be covered more quickly and intensely.