WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE?T

· students wishing to receive a thorough background four main categories of science preparation:

Human Body, Chemistry, Earth & Space, and Physics

· Junior high students who want a solid preparation for high-school sciences & TOPS credit

· those in awe of the workings of the natural world—from the smallest particles to the loftiest galaxies—and the processes that shape it, all hinting at the awesome creativity of the Creator

· students who desire textbook learning and hands-on investigations and laboratory work

MAJOR TOPICS (pre-chemistry)

MAJOR TOPICS (pre-physics)

solids, liquids, gases

motion & gravity

atoms & the Periodic Table of Elements

energy, temperature & heat

chemical bonds & chemical reactions

work & machines

radioactivity & nuclear reactions

magnetism

solutions, mixtures, compounds

waves, light & sound

acids, bases, salts

the Electromagnetic Spectrum

organic compounds

mirrors & lenses

chemical bonds heat vs. temperature inertia & friction prisms—reflection--refraction

MAJOR TOPICS (pre-Earth & Space)

MAJOR TOPICS (introduction to the human body)

hurricanes & tornadoes

skeletal & muscular systems

volcanoes & earthquakes

heart, blood & circulatory disorders

seasons & weather patterns

the eye, the ear, the taste buds

the Solar System and beyond

the lungs, the kidney, and the skin

oceans & rivers – tsunamis & floods

our alimentary canal

caves & mountains

the spread & control of disease

our place in space and our neighbors

response: nerves & hormones

intelligent design injury & repair igneous takeover & makeover What's in the heavens?

"...knowledge serves love...because each new thing learned and meditated about God is a new reason for loving him."

F.J. Sheed, Theology for Beginners