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Environmental Systems

In Environmental Systems, students conduct laboratory and field investigations, use scientific methods during investigations, and make informed decisions using critical thinking and scientific problem-solving. 

Students study a variety of topics that include: biotic and abiotic factors in habitats, ecosystems and biomes, interrelationships among resources and an environmental system, sources and flow of energy through an environmental system, relationship between carrying capacity and changes in populations and ecosystems, and changes in environments.

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Living Systems

In Living Systems, students receive Biology intervention in preparation for the Biology STAAR EOC state exam. Students are continuously enrolled in the course every semester until they receive a passing score.

The STAAR Retest exam is administered three times each school year:

•  December

• May 

• June

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