Course Overview

Advanced Physical Science is a rigorous middle school course, conceived for the enthusiastic science student who is ready for an extra challenge. Students learn about the physical world and tackle topics such as matter, energy, atoms, motion, thermodynamics and other aspects of chemistry and physics. Practical, hands-on lesson activities help students discover how scientists investigate the living world. Students perform laboratory activities and a full unit investigation to learn about the application of scientific methods. Students will study:

• Problem solving in chemistry and physics
• Matter and its properties
• Chemistry, from atoms to chemical reactions
• Motion, including harmonics and projectiles
• Forces and Newton's Laws of Motion
• Types of energy
• Laws of thermodynamics
• Light and sound
• Electricity and magnetism