This one-year course is one of the primary high school sciences. Students wishing to pursue pre-med and/or scientific studies in college will find themselves well prepared. However, students pursuing non-science majors will not find it too difficult. All students will acquire a solid foundation in understanding the wonderful living world around us, and hopefully come away from the course amazed at God's creative genius!
The course provides the student with a strong background in the scientific method, classification, microscopy, biochemistry, cellular biology, molecular and Mendelian genetics, evolution, dissection, botany, and ecosystems. It also provides a complete survey of the five kingdoms in creation.
Classes will consist of lecture, topic related activities and laboratory experiments. Dissection labs will be included. In order to accommodate home school lifestyles, both the class and lab time are scheduled on the same day. The curriculum is from Apologia Educational Ministries and has a Christian worldview.
In addition to the coursework presented in the textbook, additional activities and topics are provided to enrich the curriculum. For example: human anatomy is not covered in the text, but we cover it in this course. We also do extra activities in the genetics unit to help students gain a better grasp of this sometimes-difficult subject. Finally, we do go on field trips so that students can see how biology applies to the real world.
This course is equivalent to 1 credit of science.
Instructor: TBA
Class time: TBA (Probably - Wednesday, 8:30AM - 11:00AM)
Cost per Semester: $180 tuition + $60 lab fee/semester
Class size: 8
17-week semester
Level: High School
Required text:
The Human Anatomy Coloring Book by Margaret Matt and Joe Ziemian
Science Roots: Latin and Greek Roots for Biology and Life Science
Note: There is also a set of cards you can also purchase to cut down on the amount of time required to make the vocabulary cards.
The cards are optional. The book is required.
Exploring Creation with Biology (student text + solutions & tests) Must be the 2nd Edition book set.
