The Hobbs High School Science Department has a wide range of science offerings to help prepare you for a college and the future, regardless on what you plan on studying. New Mexico students must have a minimum of three science classes, including Ninth Grade science and sophomore Biology, in order to graduate. The third science class can be taken at any grade level in high school. Your science teacher can help you decide what additional science class you should take. Check with your science teacher, or the course handbook, for more information about each class and its pre-requisites.

AP Biology II AP Chemistry II AP Environmental Science (APES) AP Physics I AP Physics II Fundamentals of Astronomy, Meteorology, & Geology (AMG) Advanced Astronomy, Meteorology, & Geology (Adv AMG) Fundamentals of Human Anatomy & Physiology Advanced Human Anatomy & Physiology Conceptual Physics Pre-AP Chemistry Pre-AP Biology Biology

Attention Parents & Students: Want to save money? Students can earn 8 hours of college credit for each class by taking AP Biology and AP Chemistry as a Dual Credit class through the NMJC. Students have the opportunity to earn both high school and college credit while taking the class. *Students still receive the bonus points and credit for honor graduate status.

Mrs. Shawna Carter Dr. Debbie Dean Mr. John Flanigan Ms. Marsha Hancock Ms. Jennifer Holley Mrs. Karen Jackson Mr. Clint Kirkland Mrs. Cecilia Phillips Mr. Drew Rickman Mr. Thomas Rotunno Mrs. Denise Sims Dr. Cynthia Trevino HHS Science Department Faculty

The AP Biology course is designed to offer students a solid foundation in an introductory college –level biology. By structuring the course around the four big ideas, enduring understandings, and science practices, students will develop an appreciation for the study of life and help them identify and understand unifying principles within a diversified biological world. What we know today about biology is a result of inquiry. Science is a way of knowing. Therefore, the process of inquiry in science and developing critical thinking skills is important to this course. At the end of the course, students will have an awareness of the integration of other sciences in the study of biology, understand how the species to which we belong is similar to, yet different from, other species, and be knowledgeable and responsible citizens in understanding biological issues that could potentially impact their lives.

This AP Chemistry course is designed to be the equivalent of the general chemistry course usually taken during the first year of college. For students who score a 3 or higher on the AP Chemistry exam, this course enables them to undertake, as a college freshman, second year work in the chemistry sequence at their institution or to register in courses in other fields where general chemistry is a prerequisite. This course is structured around the 6 Big Ideas articulated in the AP Chemistry Curriculum Framework provided by the College Board. A special emphasis will be placed on the 7 Science Practices, which capture important aspects of the work that scientists engage in, with Learning Objectives that combine content with inquiry and reasoning skills. AP Chemistry is open to all students who have completed a year of Pre-AP Chemistry who wish to take part in an extremely rigorous and academically challenging course.

The goal of this course is to provide students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies to understand the interrelationships of the natural world, to identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and humanmade, and to evaluate the risks associated with these problems and examine alternative solutions for resolving and/or preventing them.

Students explore principles of Newtonian mechanics (including rotational motion); work, energy, and power; mechanical waves and sound; and introductory, simple circuits. The course is based on six Big Ideas, which encompass core scientific principles, theories, and processes that cut across traditional boundaries and provide a broad way of thinking about the physical world.

Students explore principles of fluids, thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism, optics, and topics in modern physics. The course is based on seven Big Ideas, which encompass core scientific principles, theories, and processes that cut across traditional boundaries and provide a broad way of thinking about the physical world.