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:
- Energy
- Force
- Newton’s Laws
- Machines
- Waves
- Light
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. Students should confirm that their high school will accept this course for credit recovery before
registering for this course.
Course Learning Objectives:
- Understand and identify variable and constant factors.
- Accurately convert between the metric and U.S. measurement systems and within the metric system.
- Define matter and explain properties of matter.
- Differentiate between various forms of energy.
- Understand and apply the Law of Conservation of Energy.
- Apply Newton’s Laws of Motion.
- Differentiate between simple and complex machines, and explain how various machines work.
- Understand how energy is transmitted by waves.
- Apply knowledge of waves to sound and light.