Credit: 1 (year-long course)
Course Code: 1232
Accelerated Chemistry is the scientific field that concentrates on the description and explanation of matter, its structure, its composition, and its behavior. In this course, students will learn about the atom, the periodic table, chemical bonding, physical behavior of matter, nuclear chemistry and the mathematical applications that apply to each. Students are required to have a strong understanding of algebraic concepts. This course meets the requirement for a third laboratory based course for Ohio High School Graduation Requirements. Students planning to attend a four-year college program following high school are strongly encouraged to take Chemistry and Physics.
Credit: 1 (year-long course)
Course Code: 1251
The course organized into six principal areas of concentration concerning the human body: organization, support and motion, integration and coordination, transport, absorption and excretion, and reproduction. The major topics covered: neuromuscular, heart and circulatory, brain and special senses, respiration, digestion, homeostasis, metabolism, and skeletal. Dissection is required. Students are required to take one additional lab-based science course for a total of 3 credits. Students planning to pursue a four-year college program following high school are strongly encouraged to include Chemistry and Physics during their high school coursework.
Credit: 1 (year-long course)
Course Code: 1225
The AP Biology course designed to be the equivalent of a college introductory biology course usually taken by biology majors during their first year. This course aims to provide students with the conceptual framework, factual knowledge, and analytical skills necessary to deal critically with the rapidly changing science of biology. The three main topics are molecules and cells, heredity and evolution, and organisms and populations. Grades are weighted. The instructor may require summer readings and assignments. This course requires two instructional periods.
Credit: 1 (year-long course)
Course Code: 1235
Some areas of theoretical chemistry explored are atomic theory and structure, chemical bonding, behavior of gases, equilibrium, kinetics, thermodynamics, stoichiometry, and reaction types. Using descriptive chemistry, the student learns to relate facts to theory and to analyze periodic relationships including chemical reactivity. Students also engage in double period lab investigations to enhance their theoretical understanding of chemistry. This course requires two instructional periods. The instructor may require summer readings and assignments.
Credit: 1 (year-long course)
Course Code: 1246
Content is consistent with College Entrance Board Physics I Test. This is a first semester college-level course in algebra-based Physics, but designed to be taught over a full academic year. Physics is especially important for those planning to go into architecture, engineering, or the sciences. For students planning on careers in the sciences, this is the suggested first physics course. Because of the emphasis on logical problem solving, this course is recommended for students planning a career in medicine. This course covers Newtonian mechanics (including rotational dynamics and angular momentum), work, energy, power, mechanical waves and sound with an introduction to electric circuits. Grades are weighted. The instructor may require summer readings and assignments. Although this course includes the basic use of trigometric functions, this understanding can be gained either in the concurrent math course or in the AP Physics I course itself.
Credit: 1 (year-long course)
Course Code: 1230
Chemistry is the scientific field that concentrates on the description and explanation of matter, its structure, its composition, and its behavior. In this course, students will learn about the atom, the periodic table, chemical bonding, physical behavior of matter, and the mathematical applications that apply to each. Students are required to have a basic understanding of algebraic concepts. This course meets the requirement for a third laboratory based course for Ohio High School Graduation Requirements. Students planning to attend a four-year college program following high school are strongly encouraged to take Chemistry and Physics.
Credit: 1 (year-long course)
Course Code: 1255
Students in this course continue to develop their understanding of three disciplinary core ideas in the Earth and Space Sciences. The high school performance expectations building upon the middle school ideas and skills and allow high school students to explain more in-depth phenomena central not only to earth and space science, but to life and physical sciences as well. These performance expectations blend the core ideas with scientific and engineering practices and crosscutting concepts to support students in developing useful knowledge to explain ideas across the science disciplines.
Credit: 1 (year-long course)
Course Code: 1260
Materials Science is an interdisciplinary course that includes elements of applied chemistry and physics as well as engineering. The course aims to understand materials such as solids, metals, polymers, composites, ceramics and glass. The course involves relating the desired properties and relative performance of a material. Students will perform extensive lab investigations to understand and explain the behavior of materials in a variety of inquiry and design scenarios. Students will document their laboratory experiences in a notebook. Students will examine current material science articles using effective reading and writing strategies. Due to the emphasis on laboratory experiences, adherence to strict safety protocols is required at all times.
Credit: 1 (year-long course)
Course Code: 1244
Physics covers the major physical concepts of motion, forces, and energy while emphasizing mathematical problem solving skills. Physics integrates lecture, lab, and problem solving exercises. Because of the emphasis on logical problem solving, Physics is a recommended course for students planning a career in any technical field. Students are required to take one additional lab-based science course for a total of 3 credits. Students planning to pursue a four-year college program following high school are strongly encouraged to include Chemistry and Physics during their high school coursework.
College Credit Plus
Credit: 1 (1 semester)
Course Code: CHEM1111
College Credit Plus - Elementary Chemistry is an OHIO TAG course through Columbus State Community College, which provides for credit transfer to any Ohio institution. Not only does this course provide for high school credits needed for graduation, also provides students the opportunity to earn four (4) college credits transcripted to Columbus State Community College. This advanced course develops concepts involving families of elements, chemical reactions, atomic theory, chemical bonding, and energies of reactions. The course is a combination of chemical theory and laboratory work. In the laboratory, the composition of matter is studied, as well as, the changes which matter undergoes during a chemical reaction. This course will prepare students for AP Chemistry. Safety goggles and aprons must be worn in the lab.
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