Course Description

This course will focus on the Next Generation Science Standards, NGSS, which includes the science of matter and how it interacts will be explored through student inquiry lessons that will improve problem solving skills and make connections to the real world. There is a great deal of peer collaboration and investigations utilizing laboratory equipment and scientific software aimed at successfully providing observable evidence needed to interpret and make scientific conclusions. By the end of this course, you will have an understanding of the composition of matter, how matter is categorized, how matter interacts, the atomic theory throughout history, the signs and causes of chemical reactions, the properties and structure of matter, and how chemistry works at the micro and macro scale around us.