High School Earth Science
Countryside has offered Earth Science as an elective for nearly all of the fifteen years that I've been at the school. As an elective, classes have historically been composed of a collection of all high school grade levels.
We tried something a bit different in our 2014-2015 school year by aiming the class at freshmen. As a predominately activities based class, students will spend much of their week engaged in the work of gathering and evaluating data. We'll measure everything in sight and in so doing become experts at precision and accuracy. We'll construct models to describe, and explain, and predict the what and how and why, of the systems and processes that make up Geology, Hydrology, Meteorology, and Astronomy; the four major systems of study in this class.
We tried something a bit different in our 2014-2015 school year by aiming the class at freshmen. As a predominately activities based class, students will spend much of their week engaged in the work of gathering and evaluating data. We'll measure everything in sight and in so doing become experts at precision and accuracy. We'll construct models to describe, and explain, and predict the what and how and why, of the systems and processes that make up Geology, Hydrology, Meteorology, and Astronomy; the four major systems of study in this class.