11 · 12 Materials Science
“All hands on all the time” is the name of the game in Materials Science, and students get to keep everything they make! Materials Science is an introductory level course focused on covering the four primary categories of physical materials that make modern everyday life possible: metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites. Students will become proficient at utilizing a variety of industrial tools with the goal of building practical skills through practical projects including, but not limited to constructing a functional forge for heat treating steel and examining solid-state diffusion welding, developing ferrous and non-ferrous alloys for investment casting, inventing lightweight composite plating from the ground up using everyday “hardware store” materials combined with epoxy polymers, and analyzing the qualities of various materials through destructive testing. Materials Science is a serious course that covers college-level engineering concepts, but does so in a manner accessible to the high school student.
Length of Course 1 bin + 1 X-bin
Mod + Period 1C, 1Xab
Credits Apply Toward Science
Grade Level(s) 11, 12
Teacher(s) Roemer
Biochemistry
Biochemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. By controlling information flow through biochemical signaling and the flow of chemical energy through metabolism, biochemical processes give rise to the complexity of life. Today, the main focus of pure biochemistry is on understanding how biological molecules give rise to the processes that occur within living cells. This class will prepare you for college level biochemistry, with focus on the structures, functions and interactions of biological macromolecules, such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates and lipids, which provide the structure of cells and perform many of the functions associated with life. There will be a laboratory component for each topic.
Prerequisite(s) Organic Chemistry
Length of Course 2 bins
Mod + Period Part 1: 4C; Part 2: 6C
Credits Apply Toward Science
43
Grade Level(s) 11, 12
Teacher(s) Lovett
From Lucy to You
Have you ever been curious about your ancestry? In this class we will go far beyond the accomplishments of your great-grandparents as we trace five million years of human history. We will begin the journey in Africa and then follow along as they took their first unsure steps on the path to global domination. Along the way we will meet our closest relatives and discover why they went extinct even as human civilization began to flourish.
Length of Course 1 X-bin
Mod + Period 4Xab
Credits Apply Toward Science
Grade Level(s) 9, 10, 11, 12
Teacher(s) Ritter
Paleobiology
Buckle your seat belts for a journey that will last four billion years. Beginning with the first cell, we will travel through changing landscapes of Earth and discover how nascent life survived and overcame brutal conditions to explode into the dizzying variety of complexity that we see today. Using tools from several disciplines of science (paleontology, genetics, geology), students will explore how life changed, and stayed the same, during its four billion year long adventure. This course will require students to perform several dissections.
Length of Course 1 X-bin
Mod + Period 1Xab
Credits Apply Toward Science
Grade Level(s) 9, 10, 11, 12
Teacher(s) Ritter
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