Flagler Palm Coast High School

Course Description

Study of the human body and how it works utilizing interactive labs and activities.

Honors and Advanced Level Course Note: Advanced courses require a greater demand on students through increased academic rigor. Academic rigor is obtained through the application, analysis, evaluation, and creation of complex ideas that are often abstract and multi-faceted. Students are challenged to think and collaborate critically on the content they are learning.

Honors level rigor will be achieved by increasing text complexity through text selection, focus on high-level qualitative measures, and complexity of task. Instruction will be structured to give students a deeper understanding of conceptual themes and organization within and across disciplines. Academic rigor is more than simply assigning to students a greater quantity of work.

Additional Information

Prerequisite: Biology

Course Description

Biology is a course which helps learners to better understand the biological world in which they live and take an informed interest in science. This course aims to review several of the major concepts that are essential to the study of life, including cells as the basic unit of life, DNA as the molecule of heredity, and review of ecological principles and relationships.

Additional Information

EOC exam counts for 30% of overall course grade.

Honors and Advanced Level Course Note: Advanced courses require a greater demand on students through increased academic rigor. Academic rigor is obtained through the application, analysis, evaluation, and creation of complex ideas that are often abstract and multi-faceted. Students are challenged to think and collaborate critically on the content they are learning.

Honors level rigor will be achieved by increasing text complexity through text selection, focus on high-level qualitative measures, and complexity of task. Instruction will be structured to give students a deeper understanding of conceptual themes and organization within and across disciplines. Academic rigor is more than simply assigning to students a greater quantity of work.

Course Description

Biology is a course which helps learners to better understand the biological world in which they live and take an informed interest in science. This course aims to review several of the major concepts that are essential to the study of life, including cells as the basic unit of life, DNA as the molecule of heredity, and review of ecological principles and relationships.

Additional Information

EOC exam counts for 30% of overall course grade.

Honors and Advanced Level Course Note: Advanced courses require a greater demand on students through increased academic rigor. Academic rigor is obtained through the application, analysis, evaluation, and creation of complex ideas that are often abstract and multi-faceted. Students are challenged to think and collaborate critically on the content they are learning.

Honors level rigor will be achieved by increasing text complexity through text selection, focus on high-level qualitative measures, and complexity of task. Instruction will be structured to give students a deeper understanding of conceptual themes and organization within and across disciplines. Academic rigor is more than simply assigning to students a greater quantity of work.

Course Description

This course will provide students with the study of the composition, properties, and changes associated with matter.  Topics such as atomic theory, periodic table, bonding, chemical formulas, behavior of gasses, and chemical reactions are included.

Additional Information

Honors and Advanced Level Course Note: Advanced courses require a greater demand on students through increased academic rigor. Academic rigor is obtained through the application, analysis, evaluation, and creation of complex ideas that are often abstract and multi-faceted. Students are challenged to think and collaborate critically on the content they are learning.

Honors level rigor will be achieved by increasing text complexity through text selection, focus on high-level qualitative measures, and complexity of task. Instruction will be structured to give students a deeper understanding of conceptual themes and organization within and across disciplines. Academic rigor is more than simply assigning to students a greater quantity of work.

Course Description

This course will provide students with the study of the composition, properties, and changes associated with matter. Topics such as atomic theory, periodic table, bonding, chemical formulas, behavior of gasses, and chemical reactions are included.

Additional Information

Honors and Advanced Level Course Note: Advanced courses require a greater demand on students through increased academic rigor. Academic rigor is obtained through the application, analysis, evaluation, and creation of complex ideas that are often abstract and multi-faceted. Students are challenged to think and collaborate critically on the content they are learning.

Honors level rigor will be achieved by increasing text complexity through text selection, focus on high-level qualitative measures, and complexity of task. Instruction will be structured to give students a deeper understanding of conceptual themes and organization within and across disciplines. Academic rigor is more than simply assigning to students a greater quantity of work.

Course Description

Study of the dynamic interactions of Matter and Energy on the planet Earth. Environmental Science students will make scientifically sound decisions about local, national, and global issues. These decisions will be based on the scientific process: observe; interpret; identify and control variables; gather; examine, and use evidence to support claims; recognize bias; consider tradeoffs; propose alternative explanations.

Additional Information

This is the perfect science course for a student not yet ready for Biology.

Course Description

In addition to the course related benchmarks, this course requires additional science content that must include benchmarks from at least one other Body of Knowledge. The additional benchmarks must include rigor appropriate for Level 3 courses and should not duplicate additional content addressed in Experimental Science 1.

Laboratory investigations that include the use of scientific inquiry, research, measurement, problem solving, laboratory apparatus and technologies, experimental procedures, and safety procedures are an integral part of this course. The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) recommends that at the high school level, all students should be in the science lab or field, collecting data every week. School laboratory investigations (labs) are defined by the National Research Council (NRC) as an experience in the laboratory, classroom, or the field that provides students with opportunities to interact directly with natural phenomena or with data collected by others using tools, materials, data collection techniques, and models (NRC, 2006, p. 3).

Laboratory investigations in the high school classroom should help all students develop a growing understanding of the complexity and ambiguity of empirical work, as well as the skills to calibrate and troubleshoot equipment used to make observations. Learners should understand measurement error; and have the skills to aggregate, interpret, and present the resulting data (National Research Council, 2006, p.77; NSTA, 2007).

Additional Information

Students in this course compete with the FPC Robotics team.
This course counts as an elective, not a Science credit.
Prerequisite: Integrated Science 1

Course Description

In addition to the course related benchmarks, this course requires additional science content that must include benchmarks from at least one other Body of Knowledge. The additional benchmarks must include rigor appropriate for Level 3 courses and should not duplicate additional content addressed in Experimental Science 1.

Laboratory investigations that include the use of scientific inquiry, research, measurement, problem solving, laboratory apparatus and technologies, experimental procedures, and safety procedures are an integral part of this course. The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) recommends that at the high school level, all students should be in the science lab or field, collecting data every week. School laboratory investigations (labs) are defined by the National Research Council (NRC) as an experience in the laboratory, classroom, or the field that provides students with opportunities to interact directly with natural phenomena or with data collected by others using tools, materials, data collection techniques, and models (NRC, 2006, p. 3).

Laboratory investigations in the high school classroom should help all students develop a growing understanding of the complexity and ambiguity of empirical work, as well as the skills to calibrate and troubleshoot equipment used to make observations. Learners should understand measurement error; and have the skills to aggregate, interpret, and present the resulting data (National Research Council, 2006, p.77; NSTA, 2007).

Additional Information

Students in this course compete with the FPC Robotics team.
This course counts as an elective, not a Science credit.
Prerequisite: Experimental Science 2

Course Description

Laboratory investigations that include the use of scientific inquiry, research, measurement, problem solving, laboratory apparatus and technologies, experimental procedures, and safety procedures are an integral part of this course.

Additional Information

Students in this course compete with the FPC Robotics team.

Course Description

During this interdisciplinary science course, students can expect to learn about

1. water and how the oceans got water as well as how this water became salty,
2. How water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles in the oceans,
3. How water can regulate climate,
4. How waves, tides, and currents influence marine life,
5. How plate boundaries shaped the ocean into what it looks like today,
6. About life in the ocean, including trophic relationships and energy flow, symbiosis, biodiversity, invasive species,
7. Resources we depend on from our oceans, and lastly
8. How humans have impacted the oceans.