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  Regents Living Environment
This course is a graduation requirement and is based on the NYS Living Environment Core Guide. This includes biology as a science, methods of science, ecology, cells as unifying living features, exploring diversity, human physiology, genetics, reproduction, and evolution. The course consists of two periods of lecture and one period of laboratory in a two day cycle. The course culminates with the Living Environment Regents Exam.  Students must have satisfactorily completed the NYS course laboratory requirements to be eligible for admission to take the Regents examination. Interactive Course Catalog Video

Local Chemistry
This is a complete chemistry course designed for students not requiring the more technical Regents course. Students will obtain sufficient chemical knowledge and skills to explore and assess chemistry-related personal and societal issues and concerns. Students will also gain an appreciation for the important role that chemistry plays in everyday life through problem-solving activities and required inquiry-based  laboratory experiments. The course will include such topics as matter and energy, atomic structure, bonding, the Periodic Table, solution chemistry, acids and bases, and organic chemistry.