Offered to students entering Grades 10-12 next year.
This course offers students the opportunity to take their required US History course in a different environment. Following their academic class-time, students will travel to Gettysburg, Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York City, Baltimore, and Boston. During the travel experience, students will be camping at commercial campgrounds and preparing about one-half of their meals.

Marine Biology

Offered to students entering grades 10-12 next year. The marine biology class will be a learning situation of the ocean environment in Bar Harbor, Maine compared to lake, river, and pond environments in our local area. Students will collect organisms for dissections and collect abiotic data to compare freshwater living conditions to marine living conditions. Learning will be conducted with field trips that include a class at Acadia National Park, a tour of Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, a whale watching tour, and a visit to a lobster hatchery. From these experiences students will receive information about scientific methods, classification, evolution, genetics, ecology, math and technology.

Earth Science Field Experience

Offered to students entering grades 9-12 next year. This course allows students to have academic experience in the classroom, followed and reinforced by a field excursion to the San Juan Mountain in Colorado. Incudes sitework at Silverton, CO.

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