I’m Mr. Felipe Vega, a high school chemistry teacher at Rancho Mirage High School in Rancho Mirage, CA (Room 663). I teach Chemistry Honors, Chemistry CP, and Chemistry for CAFE students (Culinary Arts). This website gives parents and students a clear hub for class info, policies, and where to find assignments.

I graduated from UC Irvine with a B.S. in Biological Sciences and my teaching credential. I have been in the Coachella Valley and Palm Springs Unified School District my entire life.

This is a college preparatory Chemistry course fulfilling one of the A-G requirements for high

school graduation and college readiness. Chemistry is developed around Next Generation

Science Standards to provide necessary content and skills for further science courses like

Anatomy/Physiology and Physics. We will learn Chemistry through inquiry and hands-on based instruction throughout the year.  These are the topics we plan to cover this year:

Unit 0: Scientific Ideas

Unit 1: Atoms and Elements

Unit 2: Molecules and Bonding

Unit 3: Chemical Reactions

Unit 4: Heat and Energy

Unit 5: Chemistry in the Biosphere

Unit 6: Nuclear Chemistry