Science Department

AP Biology: REQUIRED: Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem

Biology Honors REQUIRED: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot)

Medical Biology Regular & Honors REQUIRED: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot)

The following are optional for the classes listed:

Biology I Reg (Optional) : Hot Zone (Preston); The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot)

Chemistry Regular and Honors: Optional: Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon (Sheinkin) and/or The Poisoner’s Handbook (Blum)

AP Chemistry: Optional: The Periodic Table: Elements with Style! (Basher and Dingle) AND/OR The Disappearing Spoon [and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements] (Kean)

Genetics Honors: Optional: Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Ridley)

Marine Science Regular and Honors: Optional: The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Oceans are One (Earle)

AICE Marine Science: Optional: Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime (Prager)

Environmental Science: Optional: The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink (Morris)

Physical Science: Optional: What's Science Ever Done For Us: What the Simpsons Can Teach Us about Physics, Robots, Life and the Universe (Halpern)

Physics: Optional: Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character (Feynman) OR Black Holes: A Traveler's Guide (Pickover)