Winter Quarter: Level 3

Level 3 Suggested Prerequisite Understanding – Our courses are designed with the following assumptions of student knowledge:

• Able to follow multi-step written procedures
• Able to record information in tables, and starting to produce their own labeled tables for data
• Able to write and compare fractions and decimals
• Able to multiply multi-digit numbers, and able to divide single-digit numbers into multi-digit numbers
• Able to take averages

Algorithms

In this course students examine rules and processes for everything from addition and multiplication to cooking, physical movement, and scientific computing. Students learn to define, create, use, and analyze algorithms for both calculation and everyday actions.

Geochemistry

Explore the world of rocks, minerals, and crystals as well as the chemical and physical processes behind their formation. Through laboratory experimentation - growing crystals, melting metallic crystals, extracting elements from their ores, and more - students discover the origin and nature of the the rocks and minerals of the earth’s crust.