This is an honors level course that challenges students with capstone analysis, evaluation, and creativity. Students are required to complete honors capstone assignments in each semester of the course, involving research, creation, and/or the extensive use of multimedia.

The course is designed to provide the student with critical thinking opportunities to evaluate and understand science as inquiry. The course opens with the history and nature of science and how science and technology are successfully integrated. Living organisms are studied in reference to their structure and function and from the microscopic perspective of matter, energy, basic chemistry, molecular genetics, organization, and the molecular basis of heredity. From the macroscopic perspective, organisms' life cycles and reproduction, diversity, adaptation, life origins, interdependence, and behavior in the environment are explored. Living phyla, comparative morphology, homeostasis, population ecology, and nonrenewable resources support the themes throughout the course. Students will also have the opportunity to utilize laboratory simulations to reinforce the major concepts of this course. The course contains comparative virtual labs.

This course is correlated to NY state standards, including topics covered in the NY state Regents exam.

Scheduling Information
COMPLETE COURSES -A complete version of the virtual course.
- Full Credit Equivalent courses must be completed by your school's end date and within 9 months
- 1/2 Credit Equivalent courses must be completed by your school's end date and within 4 months
- 1/4 Credit Equivalent courses must be completed by your school's end date and within 2 months

ABBREVIATED COURSES - A shortened course intended for students seeking to recover credits or make-up failed courses during the regular school year or over the summer.
- Abbreviated Full Credit Equivalent courses must be completed by your school's end date and within 60 days.
- Abbreviated 1/2 and 1/4 Credit Equivalent courses must be completed by your school's end date and within 30 days.

PARTIAL COURSES - A partial version of an online course intended for students temporarily away from classes (i.e. Home Bound Instruction, In/Out-of School Suspension).
- Partial courses must be completed by your school's end date

Format
-Delivery : This is a virtual course delivered entirely by an established education organization, including a virtual instructor, to students and educators.



Delivery Method