Science
Cornerstone of Society
“Science education equips students with the tools to understand and address complex societal challenges such as climate change, public health issues, and environmental pollution.”
High school science education is designed to provide students with a strong foundation in scientific principles, critical thinking skills, and hands-on experimentation. It aims to cultivate scientific literacy and curiosity about the natural world. It equips students with a solid understanding of scientific principles, fosters critical thinking skills, and inspires a passion for inquiry and discovery. It prepares them not only for higher education but also for active engagement in a world increasingly shaped by scientific and technological advancements.
Our program begins with an Introduction to Physics course.
*For students who need additional preparation before entering the standard high school science sequence, foundational courses such as Physical Science and Life Science may be offered. These courses are designed to build essential science skills and concepts, ensuring students are ready to succeed in core subjects like Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Science.
While the primary curriculum follows a traditional college-prep science pathway, these foundational courses are available as needed based on individual student assessment and learning plans.
This course introduces students to the foundational principles of physics and earth science. Topics include energy flow in earth’s systems, forces shaping the earth’s crust, motion and momentum, gravity and orbits, electromagnetic radiation, and the origin of the universe. Students engage in investigations and collaborative problem-solving, using hands-on labs, virtual simulations, and resources to connect physics concepts with real-world phenomena and earth processes
Students explore life science through the lens of ecosystems, cellular processes, inheritance, evolution, and biodiversity. The course emphasizes how changes in earth’s systems affect living organisms and vice versa. Laboratory investigations, projects, and data analysis deepen students’ understanding of ecosystems, genetic variation, adaptation, and common ancestry, integrating key concepts from both biology and earth science
This course covers thermodynamics, the structure and properties of matter, molecular processes in earth systems, chemical reactions, and sources of chemical and nuclear energy. Students investigate the ways chemistry interacts with earth and environmental systems, engaging in experiments, model-building, and analysis of real-world chemical processes. The curriculum fosters scientific reasoning and links core chemistry topics to broader planetary and environmental contexts
Environmental Science integrates prior knowledge from physics, biology, and chemistry to examine the relationship between humans and the environment. Students study ecosystems, resource management, sustainability, pollution, and environmental policy, using project-based learning and laboratory investigations. The course prepares students to apply scientific concepts and data analysis to current environmental challenges and decision-making.
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