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AP Science Course Offerings Overview

Advanced Placement science courses including Biology, Chemistry, and Physics B are offered that are equivalent to introductory college science courses. Students can earn up to 8 credits towards college graduation by taking these rigorous courses that better prepare them for the expectations of college compared to regular high school science courses. The courses cover topics like atomic structure, chemical bonding, forces, motion, electricity, and more depending on the specific science.

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AP Science Course Offerings Overview

Advanced Placement science courses including Biology, Chemistry, and Physics B are offered that are equivalent to introductory college science courses. Students can earn up to 8 credits towards college graduation by taking these rigorous courses that better prepare them for the expectations of college compared to regular high school science courses. The courses cover topics like atomic structure, chemical bonding, forces, motion, electricity, and more depending on the specific science.

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Advanced Placement

Science
Science offerings
Biology, Chemistry & Physics B

“Students who have successfully completed AP


courses bring a greater depth of knowledge of
subject matter and have been introduced to a
higher level of expectation in academics. As a
result, we believe AP courses help prepare
students for college beyond the content of the
course. We place considerable emphasis on the
content of course work in the admission review
process.” (The College Board, 2010)
AP COURSES
 Each course is designed to be the
equivalent of a two-semester college
introductory science course usually
taken by biology majors during their
first year.
 Students can earn up to 8 credits

towards college graduation.


 The strength and rigor of this course

will better prepare you for college.


AP Biology
 Science as a Process
 Evolution
 Energy Transfer
 Continuity and Change
 Relationship of Structure to Function
 Regulation
 Interdependence in Nature
 Science, Technology, and Society
AP Chemistry
 Atomic theory and atomic structure
 Chemical bonding
 Molecular models Lewis structures,
Valence bond, VSEPR
 States of Matter (Gases, Liquids and
solids, Solutions)
 Reaction types (Stoichiometry,
Equilibrium, Kinetics, Thermodynamics
AP Physics B
 classical and modern physics.
 knowledge of algebra and basic trigonometry is
required for the course. Basic ideas of calculus
may be introduced (acceleration and work.)
 Newtonian mechanics
 Fluid mechanics and thermal physics
 Electricity and magnetism
 Waves and optics
 Atomic and nuclear physics

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