4004: Honors Physical Science

This course is a rigorous course, intended as an introductory science course. This course focuses on the fundamental principles of chemistry and physics. Students will learn how matter interacts, including phenomena such as waves, force, motion, and electromagnetism. Students will also learn about atomic structure, the organization and trends of the periodic table of elements, and chemical bonding and reactions. An emphasis will be placed on the use of hands-on activities and labs, data collection, student collaboration in cooperative groups, and analyzing information. Students will use science and engineering practices to explain phenomena, support scientific arguments, design solutions to problems, identify relationships between two variables, and make predictions about how changes to one variable affect other variables.