This is an adaptive credit recovery course, in which students will complete a pretest for each module, and will be exempted from activities for topics where mastery is demonstrated. This type of credit recovery course targets individual areas of need in the curriculum and minimizes repetition of content where students have demonstrated their understanding.
In this introductory course, students will gain a basic knowledge of the physical properties and chemistry of matter. Students will explore a variety of concepts that they can relate to their everyday life. This course remediates an 8th or 9th grade physical science course, not physics, which requires higher-level mathematics skills.
Major topics include:
- Lenses
- Electricity
- Matter
- Modern Machines
- Physical Science and the Environment
Students learn through online lesson activities, videos, and interactive activities. Each module begins with a pretest, proceeds to lessons that conclude with a brief self-check, and wraps with a module exam. The course concludes with a cumulative exam.
This course uses content from Accelerate Education taught by a VHS Learning instructor who is certified in their content area and who follows VHS Learning policies. The course will be hosted in the Buzz learning management system. Students may spend 40 hours completing this course, though actual time-spent will vary based on individual student performance in module pretests.
Credit recovery courses do not meet initial eligibility requirements for NCAA. Students who require flexible courses meeting initial eligibility requirements should consider VHS Learning self-paced courses, which can be found in the VHS Learning Catalog. Course Learning Objectives:
- Understand and apply knowledge of lenses.
- Explain basics of electricity.
- Apply knowledge of electricity to batteries and circuits.
- Understand resistance and Ohm’s Law.
- Explain the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
- Explain properties of matter and the basic interactions between matter.
- Describe various modern machines and explain how they work.
- Explore physical aspects of the environment.