Science

Agriculture Earth Science

Earth Science in Agriculture is a one-year, laboratory science course, designed for the college bound student with career interests in Agriculture.  Using agriculture as a learning vehicle, the course emphasizes the principles and practices of Earth Science as a way to demonstrate the relevance of Earth Science in Agriculture to each student’s life and environment.  This class will utilize local and regional issues and concerns to stimulate problem-solving activities and to foster a sense of Earth stewardship by students in their communities.  The class will establish an expanded learning environment, which incorporates fieldwork, technological access to data, and traditional classroom and laboratory activities.  The course is centered around an extensive laboratory component in order to connect the big ideas of all earth sciences with agricultural applications, physical science principles, and other curricular areas, including written and oral reporting skills.

Agriculture Biology

Agriculture Biology is a one-year, laboratory science course, designed for the college bound student with career interests in agriculture.  Using agriculture as a learning vehicle, the course emphasizes the principles, central concepts and inter-relationships among the following topics:  the molecular and cellular aspects of life, the chemical and structural basis of life, energetics of life, growth and reproduction in plant and animal genetics ecological relationships among plants, animals, humans and the environment, nutrition in animals, health and diseases in animals and the similarities between animals and humans.  The course is centered on an extensive laboratory component in order to connect the big ideas of all life science with agricultural applications, earth and physical science principles and other curricular areas, including written and oral reporting skills.

Agriculture Chemistry

Agriculture Chemistry is a one-year, laboratory science course, designed for the college bound student with career interests in agriculture, science and technology.  Using agriculture as a learning vehicle, the course emphasizes the principles, central concepts and inter-relationships among the following topics: periodic law and trends, atomic and molecular structures, states of matter, chemical bonding, conservation of matter and stoichiometry, gases and their properties, properties of acids, bases and salts, qualitative and quantitative analysis, chemical thermodynamics, chemical reaction rates, chemical equilibrium, nuclear processes and an introduction to organic and biochemistry.  The course is centered on an extensive laboratory component in order to connect the big ideas of chemistry with agricultural applications, earth and life science principles and other curricular areas, including written, mathematical and oral reporting skills.