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Here's a list of some of the class curriculum standards.  It's what we will be covering over the year.  Yikes! 

Scientific Processes: All students will develop problem-solving, decision-making and inquiry skills, reflected by formulating usable questions and hypotheses, planning experiments, conducting systematic observations, interpreting and analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and communicating results.

Science and Society: All students will develop an understanding of how people of various cultures have contributed to the advancement of science and technology, and how major discoveries and events have advanced science and technology.

Mathematical Applications: All students will integrate mathematics as a tool for problem-solving in science, and as a means of expressing and/or modeling scientific theories

Nature and Process of Technology: All students will understand the interrelationships between science and technology and develop a conceptual understanding of the nature and process of technology.

Characteristics of Life: All students will gain an understanding of the structure, characteristics, and basic needs of organisms and will investigate the diversity of life.

Chemistry: All students will gain an understanding of the structure and behavior of matter.

Environmental Studies: All students will develop an understanding of the environment as a system of interdependent components affected by human activity and natural phenomena.

Genetics:  All students will be able to understand how all physical traits are controlled by genes and chromosomes.

Evolution:  All students will be able to describe how organisms change over time.


IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  May 18th is the end of the year assessment test!!  All students taking any Biology course except for Advanced Placement Biology have to  take this exam.  It is a state requirement.