Huntington North Science Department
Life Science, Animals
Advanced Science
GRADES 11, 12
2 SEMESTERS (required) • 2 CREDITS (Dual Credit Opportunity)
Advanced Life Science, Animals, is a standards-based, interdisciplinary science course that integrates biology, chemistry, and microbiology in an agricultural context. Students enrolled in this course formulate, design, and carry out animal-based laboratory and field investigations as an essential course component. Students investigate key concepts that enable them to understand animal growth, development, and physiology as it pertains to agricultural science. This course stresses the unifying themes of both biology and chemistry as student work with concepts associated with animal taxonomy, life at the cellular level, organ systems, genetics, evolution, ecology, and historical and current issues in animal agriculture. Students completing this course will be able to apply the principles of scientific inquiry to solve problems related to biology and chemistry in highly advanced agricultural applications of animal development.
Required Prerequisites: Principles of Agriculture
Recommended Prerequisites: Introduction to Agriculture, Animal Science, Food and Natural Resources, Biology; Chemistry; Integrated Chemistry Physics
This course fulfills two Core 40, Academic Honors or Technical Honors Diploma science credits for graduation. You must take both semesters of this course.
Qualifies as a quantitative reasoning course.