This is a first-year lab course devoted to understanding the concepts and principles, which underlie all chemical phenomena. Using an inquiry approach, the primary focus is to understand these concepts in context; connections between the scientific principles and their application will be developed. This course covers the following topics: the particulate theory of matter, states of matter, chemical and physical properties, solutions, chemical reactions, stoichiometry, oxidation-reduction, chemical bonding, atomic structure, periodicity, nuclear process, and atmospheric chemistry.

This is a lab science course that covers introductory topics in earth science including: earth history, plate tectonics, volcanoes, earthquakes, natural resources, meteorology, and oceanography. This course helps prepare students for the science WASL. Honors credit available.

Students demonstrate learning by their performance on a variety of tests, lab work, and projects as well as completion of regular class work and homework.Special emphasis on learning through inquiry and scientific problem solving.

Biology is a lab science and covers the following topics: the study of living organisms, their interrelatedness with their environments, the similarities involved in their life processes, the process of science, unity and diversity among living things, heredity, evolution, and ecology, and earth science as it relates to the history of life.

Physics is a laboratory course focused on the concepts and principles necessary to explain the natural world. Through these concepts and principles, students will gain an understanding of topics such as electricity and magnetism, Newton's laws of motion, momentun, acceleration, energy and work.