Honors Biology

Honors Biology is a year-long laboratory-based science course. It covers the same topics as Biology, but moves at a faster pace and uses a more rigorous set of expectations. This course covers the following topics: the study of living organisms from a molecular to system level, their interrelatedness with their environments, their similarities in life processes, unity and diversity among living things, including heredity, evolution, ecology and human impacts on ecological systems. Engineering is embedded throughout the course. This course meets one of the three science credits required for graduation and is aligned to the Washington State 2013 K-12 Science Learning Standards (NGSS).

Duration: Full Year

Pre-requisites: Teacher recommendation

Credits: 1.0 (1.0 Lab Science credit; 0.5 per semester)

Grade Level: 9 - 10

Teacher: Martha Strachan (strachanm@edmonds.wednet.edu)