MS Science

In this year-long course, students will focus on some of the key disciplinary core ideas in Physical, Earth and Space, and Life Science concepts and processes as outlined in the Washington State Science Learning Standards. Students will have the opportunity to explore the science and engineering practices, as well as the cross cutting concepts, that allow us to answer questions and solve problems. Students will be provided hands-on activities in the laboratory, class discussions, individual and group projects and activities, and opportunities to investigate science topics of relevance to their own lives to enhance their understanding of essential learning in science.

In this year-long course, students will focus on some of the key disciplinary core ideas in Physical, Earth and Space, and Life Science concepts and processes as outlined in the Washington State Science Learning Standards. Students will have the opportunity to explore the science and engineering practices, as well as the cross cutting concepts, that allow us to answer questions and solve problems. Students will be provided hands-on activities in the laboratory, class discussions, individual and group projects and activities, and opportunities to investigate science topics of relevance to their own lives to enhance their understanding of essential learning in science.

In this year-long course, students will focus on some of the key disciplinary core ideas in Physical, Earth and Space, and Life Science concepts and processes as outlined in the Washington State Science Learning Standards. Students will have the opportunity to explore the science and engineering practices, as well as the cross cutting concepts, that allow us to answer questions and solve problems. Students will be provided hands-on activities in the laboratory, class discussions, individual and group projects and activities, and opportunities to investigate science topics of relevance to their own lives to enhance their understanding of essential learning in science.

The course is supported by students' concurrent enrollment in mathematics that includes fundamentals of algebra. While algebraic treatment is not the focus, students have an opportunity to apply the math they are learning to the physics concepts studied. Computer simulators of systems to study the laws of physics are used extensively.

This course is a study of the effects of science on historical events and the development of the universe. Students will go through the entirety of the galactic timeline, from the Big Bang to the development of life, and societies, and the steps humans are taking to develop the future. Students will get a chance to look at how science and historical developments are intertwined - and that new complex changes and events are built on the ones that came before. Approved as an elective course only. Does not replace 6th/7th/8th grade required science courses.