Computer Aided Drafting and Design

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Computer Aided Drafting and Design

• Offered Fall of every year
• Prerequisites Precalc/Trig
• See Mr. Sloan with any questions

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CADD--Offered Fall of every year

• Project Based
• Utilize computer aided drafting software to model
  structures and other items
• 3-D designs
• 2-D designs
• Engineering diagrams
• Drafting techniques
• Reading blueprints

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CADD--Offered Fall of every year
2-D Engineering/Architectural Drawing
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CADD--Offered Fall of every year
3-D Engineering/Architectural Drawing
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Computer Aided Drafting and Design
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• Offered Fall of every year
• Course recommended for students planning to major
  in engineering, or anyone interested in computer
  design
• See Mr. Sloan with any questions

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Design Engineering and Patents

• Offered Spring of every year
• PrerequisitesPre-Engineering
• See Mr. Sloan with any questions

New Engineering elective starting Spring 2010
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Design Engineering and Patents Offered Spring of
every yearPrerequisitesPre-Engineering

• Course Sections
• Project based Basic CADD techniques
• Mechanical drawings Engineering drawings
• Architectural drawings Hand drafting techniques

New Engineering elective starting Spring 2010
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Design Engineering and PatentsOffered Spring of
every yearPrerequisitesPre-Engineering
New Engineering elective starting Spring 2010

• Investigate
• Current products on the market
• Patents and the patent application process
• Potential Projects
• Invent/create a product from the ground up that
  would fill the need(s) of society
• Improvement to an existing product to fill the
  need(s) of society

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Design Engineering and PatentsOffered Spring of
every yearPrerequisitesPre-Engineering

• Course is recommended for students planning to
  major in engineering or interested in the design
  process
• See Mr. Sloan with any questions

New Engineering elective starting Spring 2010
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Forensic Chemistry

• Mr. Davis
• Offered every Spring

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Overview

• Learn the science behind (and the inaccuracies
  in) CSI-type shows
• We will investigate the challenges, methods and
  analysis of forensic science from a fundamental,
  chemical perspective.

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Topics in Forensic Chemistry

• Fingerprints
• Hair and Fiber
• Trace evidence
• Combustion
• Toxins
• Blood and DNA

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Pandemics and Avian Flu
Bacteriology Mrs. McDonough
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Information about Pandemics

• Bubonic plague
• Smallpox
• Cholera
• Yellow fever
• Malaria
• Influenza

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Learning about epidemiology
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Tracing current outbreaks
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How is influenza transmitted?

• Air-borne(sneeze, cough, talk)

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What else?

• Working with microorganisms
• Identification of microorganisms
• Lab skills and techniques
• Offered every other year.

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Biotechnology
Training for the future Mrs. McDonough
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What is Biotechnology

• Lab based class with assessments on skills.
• Skills to be learned include
• Electrophoresis
• DNA extraction
• Protein identification
• Microscopy
• Growing organisms

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Offered every other year
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This isAP Biology!

• Offered every year!

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Experience great field trips!
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Collaboration with other AP classes!
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Why take AP Biology?

• Preparation for Medical School
• Preparation for College Biology courses
• Good for college applications and transcripts

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Take the challenge!
AP Biology!
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Introduction to Mathematical Logic

• Ms. Voskuhl
• Spring 2010

A NEW Elective!
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Course Description

• An introduction to formal mathematical
• reasoning. We will be looking at
• examples from Number Theory,
• Probability, and Analysis, among others.
• General problem solving skills will be
• acquired.
• A good time will be had by all!

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Who should take this class?

• This class will be invaluable for
• students who intend on taking Math in college.
• students who intend on majoring in Engineering or
  Physics.
• anyone interested in sharpening their logical
  reasoning skills.

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What will I do in class?

• We will be looking at arguments
• from a variety of mathematical fields
• an examining their construction.

A NEW Elective!
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The Bottom Line

• Dont be afraid
• Math is fun
• So just give this elective a try!
• Intro. to Mathematical Logic

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AP Environmental Science (APES)(year long course)
NEW SMA course! 2009/2010

• The goal of the AP Environmental Science course
  is to provide students with the scientific
  principles, concepts, and methodologies required
  to understand the interrelationships of the
  natural world, to identify and analyze
  environmental problems both natural and
  human-made, to evaluate the relative risks
  associated with these problems, and to examine
  alternative solutions for resolving and/or
  preventing them (College Board, 2009).

Teacher Mrs. Gabriel Only offered every other
year
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AP Environmental Science (APES)

• Take this course if
• You like going OUTSIDE for classes
• You like field trips
• You like learning about ANIMALS
• You want to earn COLLEGE CREDIT for a high school
  course
• You like doing science LABS
• You dont mind getting a little DIRTY

Teacher Mrs. Gabriel Only offered every other
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AP Environmental
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APES Exam Topics (This IS a College Board course)

• The course provides instruction and laboratory
  experiences in each of the following seven
  content areas
• Earth Systems and Resources (10-15)
• The Living World (10-15)
• Population (10-15)
• Land and Water Use (10-15)
• Energy Resources and Consumption (10-15)
• Pollution (25-30)
• Global Change (10-15)

Teacher Mrs. Gabriel Only offered every other
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Introduction to Engineering

• Taught by Mr. Leff

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Who should take Introduction to Engineering?

• Anyone who
• is interested in engineering
• likes to figure things out
• enjoys working in teams
• is creative

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What will you do in Introduction to Engineering?

• Projects
• Creative problem solving
• Research different branches of engineering
• Have Fun

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Can you make a living as an engineer?
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SIGN UP NOW!
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Plant Physiology

• Offered every other year (starting in 2009)

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Overview

• An in-depth study of the plant kingdom
• Plant structure and function, from the cellular
  level to the ecosystem level
• Learn about all types of plants, from mosses and
  ferns, to gigantic redwoods and delicate orchids
• Prerequisites Biology, and a love of plants!

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• The following courses will be offered in the
  2010-2011 school year.

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Genetics
Offered every other year Mrs. McDonough
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Learn about the Laws governing Inheritance of
Traits Through hands on genetics Experiments Work
with Flies!!!!
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What will you learn

• Information about Chromosomes DNA
• Genetic Inheritance
• Application of principles

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Punnett Square

• Used to help solve genetics problems

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Dihybrid Cross
Round/Yellow 9Round/green
3wrinkled/Yellow 3wrinkled/green 1 9331
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ECOLOGY
Mrs. McDonough Offered every other year
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The biosphere is being destroyed around us,
largely due to human activity.
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Take ecology and

• Learn about the local ecology and how to protect
  it
• Have most of your classes outside
• Use testing techniques to assess our local
  ecology.

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Our ecological Footprint!
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USE ECOLOGICAL METHODS

• OBSERVING
• EXPERIMENTING
• MODELING

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Kinesiology 2010 (fall semester)

• Kinesiology is the study of biomechanical
  movement. In this course, we examine the
  muscles, tendons, ligaments and bones. We use
  what we learn about them to
• Design exercise prescriptions for strength and
  flexibility training,
• Examine the form prevent injury are further
  examined.
• Motion analyses to improve skills in sport.
• Become GOOD friends with your own mini-skeleton

Teacher Mrs. Gabriel Only offered every other
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Kinesiology
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Sports Physiology 2011 - - (spring semester)

• Sports Physiology is a course designed to examine
  the physiological adaptations to sport and
  exercise. Things we do
• Learn to take blood pressure
• Learn how to take an EKG and EMG and interpret
• Learn how to test muscle strength and endurance
• Learn about muscle metabolism, training for
  different types of sport, nutrition for exercise
  and sport, and sex and gender considerations.

Teacher Mrs. Gabriel Only offered every other
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Sports Physiology
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Intro. To Materials Science

• Mr. Davis

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Overview

• Offered every other year
• Next class Spring 2011
• This course will cover the wide variety of
  materials used in modern engineering. The goal
  is to analyze the relationships between design,
  production, and utilization of materials, and to
  study how those characteristics influence
  material choices.

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Topics

• Crystal Structure
• Metals
• Ceramics
• Polymers
• Composites
• Materials Design Project

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