In this course, students explore concepts of biology and medicine as they take on roles of different medical professionals to solve real-world problems. Students are challenged in various scenarios including investigating a crime scene to solve a mystery, diagnosing and proposing treatment to patients in a family medical practice, to tracking down and containing a medical outbreak at a local hospital, stabilizing a patient during an emergency and collaborating with others to design solutions to local and global medical problems. 

This course is designed for students who plan to go in to the medical field in college.  Anatomy and physiology is the study of the structure and function of human body parts and phases in the human life cycle.

Advanced Placement Biology is the equivalent of a first-year college biology course.  Three general areas are covered:  Molecules and Cells (25%); Heredity and Evolution (25%); Organisms and Populations (50%).  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.  Emphasis is placed on developing an understanding of concepts rather than memorizing terms and details.  This emphasis generates the structure of the AP Biology course that is composed of topics, concepts and themes. Students are required to take the Advanced Placement Biology Exam.  Students who enroll in this course are eligible for college credit from Camden County College through the High School Plus Program.

PREREQUISITES:  Completed AP application and Department Approval, Honors Integrated Science Part II

This college chemistry course stresses selected fundamental principles of chemistry at their present stage of development and their application to a descriptive chemistry of the elements.  Individual laboratory experiments in elementary qualitative and quantitative analysis, use of chemical handbooks, and the knowledge of applied research are an integral part of the course.  Enriched by the intelligent use of principles, the student will be well equipped to apply his knowledge of chemistry in a variety of fields of endeavor.  Students are required to take the Advanced Placement Chemistry exam.  Students who enroll in this course are eligible for college credit from Camden County College through the High School Plus Program.

PREREQUISITES:  Completed AP application and Department Approval, Honors Integrated Science Part II

In the physics C course roughly one half of the year is devoted to mechanics.  Use of calculus in problem solving and in derivations is expected to increase as the course progresses.  The second half of the year, the course is devoted to classical electricity and magnetism.  Calculus is used freely in formulating principles and in solving problems.  Students are required to take the Advanced Placement Physics C exam.   Students who enroll in this course are eligible for college credit from Camden County College through the High School Plus Program.                                                                                                                                      

PREREQUISITES:  Completed AP application and Department Approval, Honors Integrated Science Part II

COREQUISITE:  Calculus 

An introductory course, biology deals with the unique properties of organisms that set them apart from the nonliving: molecular and cellular biology as a background for the concepts of reproduction and genetics; the continuity of life and the transmission of characteristics to offspring so as to understand organic variation and classification; classification of all living organisms; human biology.

The course is for the highly motivated science student and will include an in-depth study of general and advanced topics from the fields of biology, chemistry and physics.  This intense study is fortified with laboratory experimentation.  This course is for students with exceptional ability and serves as a prerequisite for Honors Integrated Science Part II.

COREQUISITE:  Honors Algebra I and Honors Geometry or Honors Algebra II 

This course introduces students to problem solving in chemistry and physics.  It is quantitative in nature employing laboratory experimentation as the central learning framework.  The curriculum is designed to prepare the students for future science courses.

 

This course is designed to include the following topics: mechanics, heat, sound, light, and electricity. To reinforce the basic principles learned, the curriculum is coordinated with laboratory experiments.  Problem solving is included as an integral part of the course in an effort to develop in the student a logical and coherent pattern of reasoning and thinking.

PREREQUISITES:  Chemistry, Algebra II & Trigonometry