Life Science, 7th Grade
Text: Focus on Life Science: California Edition, Prentice Hall, Inc. 2001
Life science emphasizes a complex understanding of change, cycles, patterns and relationships in the living world that God created. Student’s focus on basic principles related to these organisms and the dynamic relationship among organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems. Inquiry skills at this level include organization and mathematical analysis data, manipulating variables in experiments and identifying the source.
Physical Science, 8th Grade
Text: Focus on Physical Science: California Edition, Prentice Hall, Inc. 2001.
This class is an introduction and overview of God’s design of nature. Students will study the chemical and physical plan of the world around us. Inquiry skills at this level include organization and mathematical analysis data, manipulating variables in experiments and identifying the source. The major units of study are: motion; forces and energy; sound and light; electricity and magnets; matter and reactions; astronomy.
Introductory Science
Text: Science Spectrum: A Physical Approach, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2001.
This course encompasses the laws, theories, and principles of Physical Science and allows the student to apply these to everyday phenomena. Students will implement the scientific method to experiment in the areas of motion, force, heat, temperature, wave properties, electricity and magnetism, nature of matter and changes in matter. Discovering the properties of sound and light will lead the students to evaluation of theory. Analysis of experimental results and application of biblical principles will aid students in integrating areas of science into their lives and will enable them to explain familiar occurrences in scientific language.
Chemistry
Text: Chemistry, Steven Zumdahl, 3rd ed., D. C. Heath 1993.
This class is an introduction to the chemical processes and atomic design of God’s creation. The course focuses on the nature of matter, the basic chemical structures of atoms and their interactions in nature. The class centers upon the theme of intelligent design of the world around us, allowing the solving of complex problems using logic, trial and error, intuition and patience.
Biology
Text: Biology: Dynamics of Life, Glencoe/McGraw Hill, 2000.
Biology is aligned with the science content standards as established by the state of California. The class will be taught based on a Biblical view of intelligent design. We focus on the diversity of life forms in depth while revealing their relationships and fundamental unity form and function. Biology is designed to inculcate the student with the living world and its systems. This course examines variables and principles that contribute to effective observation, analysis, and instruction in the field of Biology.
Physical Science
This class is an introduction and overview of God’s design of nature. Students will study the chemical and physical plan of the world around us. The class will focus on the physical world around us. The major units of study are: motion, forces, and energy; sound and light; electricity and magnets; matter and reactions; astronomy.
Physics
Text: Holt Physics, Holt, Rinehart and Winston 2002.
As a basic Newtonic physics course, forces and the laws of motion are studied. Fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and vibrations are examined. Light reflection, refraction, interference, and diffraction are studied. Electricity and magnetisms are broken down into constituent parts (fields, capacitance, resistance and current) and studied in the framework of circuits.
AP Biology
Text: Biology (Fifth Edition) Benjamin/Cummings, an imprint of Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
This course is designed to be the equivalent of a college introductory biology course usually taken by biology majors during their first year. The AP Biology course is designed to be taken by students after the successful completion of a first course in high school biology and one in high school chemistry. It 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 two main goals of AP Biology are to help students develop a conceptual framework for modern biology and to help students gain an appreciation of science as a process. Essential to this conceptual understanding are the following: a grasp of science as a process rather than as an accumulation of facts; personal experience in scientific inquiry; recognition of unifying themes that integrate the major topics of biology; and application of biological knowledge and critical thinking to environmental and social concerns.
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