Credit Courses

List of 4 items.

• Physics 1

  Instructor:  Mr. Jim Ringlein, LCDS faculty

  
  Prerequisite(s):  Full year of Chemistry and Algebra II with final grades of C or higher.

  
  For students entering grades: 10-12

  
  Meeting Times:

  • June 17-July 19, 2024
  • 8 AM to 12 PM each day

  
  Course Description: 

  “Explore Learning” simulations and related worksheets are assigned for homework each evening, plus related e-reading and a few problems from the book. Expect about 1-1.5 hours of homework each evening. A test will be given each Friday, with a comprehensive final on the last day of class. You will need a laboratory notebook for documenting daily experiment results.

  
  

  Week 1

  Kinematics in one and two dimensions, including use of LEGO Nxt robots.

   

  Week 2

  Forces, including water-rocket construction and testing.

   

  Week 3

  Momentum, energy, and work, including roller coaster design.

   

  Week 4

  Waves, sound, and optics.

   

  Week 5

  Electricity and magnetism.

• Honors Chemistry

  Instructor:  Mrs. Lindsay Deibler-Wallace, LCDS faculty

  
  Prerequisite(s):  Full year of Algebra I and Honors Geometry with final grades of B or higher
  
  For students entering grades:  9-12
  
  

  Meeting Times: 
  

  • June 17-July 19, 2024
  • 8 AM to 12 PM each day
    
    

  Course Description:

  Vodcasts will be assigned as daily homework in addition to some practice problems on corresponding worksheets.  About 1 - 1.5 hours of homework each evening.  Comprehensive weekly assessments on 2-3 units, laboratory activities, and a final exam will all contribute to the overall grade in the course.

  
  Week 1

  • Laboratory safety, equipment, and procedures.
  • Chemical measurements: Significant figures, conversions, factor-label method.
  • Introduction to Chemistry: Element names and symbols, classification of matter, chemical/ physical properties and changes, energy.
  • Atomic Structure: Atomic theory and structure, isotopes and average atomic mass, mole concept.

  
  Week 2
  

  • The Periodic Table: Development of the Periodic Table, periodic trends.
  • Chemical Bonding: Common ions, chemical bonding: covalent, ionic, metallic.
  • Chemical Names and Formulas: Naming chemical compounds, using chemical formulas.

  
  Week 3

  • Chemical Reactions and Equations: Writing and balancing equations, reaction types, predicting products.
  • Stoichiometry: Stoichiometric calculations, limiting reactant, percent yield.

  
  Week 4

  • Gases: Development of the gas laws, partial pressure, effusion, and diffusion.
  • States of Matter: Properties of solids, liquids, gases, kinetic molecular theory, phase changes.

  
  Week 5
  

  • Aqueous Solutions: Concentration calculations, solution preparation, and properties, colligative properties.
  • Thermochemistry/Thermodynamics: Phase change energy calculations, enthalpy, entropy, and free energy.
  • Advanced topics such as acids/bases and oxidation/ reduction as time permits.

• Honors Geometry

  Instructor: Mrs. Katelyn Appelt, LCDS faculty
  
  Prerequisite(s):  A grade of B+ or higher in Algebra I, or permission of the Algebra I instructor.
  

   

  For students entering grades:  8-10

   

  Meeting Times:

  • June 17-July 19, 2024
  • 8 AM to 12 PM each day

  
  Course Description: 

  Everyday, students should be prepared to learn new material and have about 60-120 minutes of homework due the next morning. Every other class, there will be a 70-minute test that covers the material from that chapter. After a break, we start the next chapter in the second part of class. The following day consists of finishing the chapter and then reviewing for the test. At the end of the course, there will be a comprehensive final exam. The class work, tests, and homework (what appears in Canvas) will all count towards 6/7 your overall grade while the final exam is worth 1/7 of your overall grade.

  
  Week 1

  Points, lines, planes, angle pairs, distances, measures, algebraic reasoning, proving angles congruent, proofs with lines and angles.
  
  Week 2

  Proving triangles to be congruent, relationships within triangles, polygons, and quadrilaterals.

   

  Week 3

  Similarities in polygons, right triangle trigonometry.

  
  Week 4

  Area, surface area, and volume.
  
  Week 5
  Circles and geometric probability.

• PE Body Fit (trimester elective)

  Instructor:  Mr. Chris Wilson, LCDS faculty

  
  Prerequisite(s):  None
  
  

  For students entering grades: 9-12

  
  Meeting Times:

  • June 17-July 19, 2024
  • 12 PM to 1 PM each day

  
  Course Description: 

  This course will incorporate fitness trackers, FitBits, Apple Watches, steps apps, pedometers, physical assessments, both indoor and outdoor fitness activities, as well as lectures, labs, quizzes, and project assignments. The students will learn how to use various equipment for strength training. The goal is to produce health-literate students familiar with the necessary tools and information of fitness and wellness. Grading of weekly participation, quizzes, labs, exams, and assignments will make up 75 percent of the final grade. The other 25 percent will be based on the final work-out plan, completed weekly during the course. The course is pass/fail. One hour per day should be allotted to completing course activities.