High school credit courses that meet state high school graduation requirements for science. Permission of instructor required. This class may include students from multiple sections.
Course Outcomes
- Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
- Read and comprehend science & technical text at a College & Career Ready level of complexity.
- Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
- Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions (including self-generated question) or to solve a problem, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
- Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
- Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it: cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
- Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
- Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.