CHEMISTRY / JUNIORS & SENIORS

This is a college prep course for average and above average students interested in going into a science related or technical field. The students who take the course will be expected to use their math skills in an applied situation. Those students interested in nursing, a medically related career, or engineering will be required to take chemistry in college and should strongly consider taking the course. Students will be required to do lab reports on experiments done in the course, written homework on the topics in the course, and achieve a passing grade on all chapter tests. The course content will include the study of atomic structure, trends in the periodic table, acid-base theory, the gas laws, chemical bonding, stoichiometry and properties of solids and liquids.

Prerequisite: Students must have passed Algebra 2 or be currently enrolled in the course.

Length of Course: One year (5 of 6)

Credit: 1.0