Department Philosophy:

Department Goals:

• Teachers will encourage students to enhance their critical thinking skills by:  

  • Performing inquiry-based labs and activities to home investigative thought.

  • Thinking inductively to note trends and patterns in chemistry, biology, and physics.

  • Deducing from general principles to predict feasible hypotheses.

  • Incorporating oral presentations to demonstrate logical reasoning.

  • Interpreting and evaluating bioethical/biomedical issues.

  • Analyzing and synthesizing data collected from laboratory activities, primary sources, and supplemental resources.

  • Thinking reflectively to consider past theories in light of current technological knowledge.

  • Considering various models and theories and their practical applications in modern society.

  • Assimilating new information into existing knowledge structures.

  • Accommodating new data by forming new knowledge structures.
    
    

• Teachers and students will use CD-roms and Internet sources to reinforce curriculum and to further investigate selected topics. A variety of projects, presentations, and group activities are utilized.
  
  

• The sciences naturally foster a disciplined mind, an organized manner, and a logical approach to responsibilities that are prerequisites for leadership both in and out of the classroom.