High School Lab Sciences

Course: Biology 
Grade Level: 9-11 (Advanced 8th graders may apply)
Day/Time: Tuesday 8:00 – 9:50am OR 12:30 – 2:20pm OR 2:25 – 4:15pm
Instructor: TBA
Cost: $88 per month + $60 application fee
Online Availability: Students can enroll in this class as an Online Real Time student, pending teacher approval.
Book: Shop online for a used book from Amazon or order directly through Abeka. You can also order it through any other used book website.

• Abeka Biology: God’s Living Creation, (4th edition, 2015), ISBN: 0019777701

Description: Step into the fascinating and exciting world of living things! Each week students will have the privilege of doing a hands-on lab such as microscopy, pig dissection, bacteriology, pathology, resting heart rate, testing lung capacity, and much more. Few Biology courses in the Chattanooga area offer such extensive hands-on labs every week! That’s over 30 college preparatory labs happening in one year!   Research, presentations, projects, debates, discussions, and fun labs make this class a Hilger favorite.  Homeschool parents consistently tell us that it is hard to be successful in setting up labs at home. Let us do the prep work for you! Homework will be given each week, while tests are given every four weeks and a comprehensive final exam at the end of each semester. Our students are fully prepared for whatever science class they move on to next.

Course: Physical Science
Grade Level: 9-11
Day/Time: Thursday 12:30 – 2:20pm OR 2:25 – 4:15pm
Instructor: Julie Bingham
Cost: $88 per month + $60 application fee
Online Availability: Students can enroll in this class as an Online Real Time student, pending teacher approval.|
Book: You can order a used book online or on Amazon.

• Conceptual Physical Science by Hewitt, Suchocki, Hewitt (5th edition, 2011), ISBN: 978-0321753342 

Description: This is a comprehensive, college-prep Physical Science course designed to prepare students for High School Chemistry and Physics. With this being our first “math based” high school science class, we recommend this course be taken before Chemistry and Physics. Our Physical Science class is not a junior high level physical science some people normally equate with physical science. This course is a Pre-Physics and Pre-Chemistry course that will help any student be successful at the next level of science. We combine active learning with critical thinking exercises, hands-on experiments, review questions, and quantitative problems. Of note, if your child struggled in Algebra I we highly recommend this class before Chemistry. Hands-on labs will be incorporated each week to help students learn more practical ways physical science applies to life. Homework will be given each week with a test every four-five weeks.

Course: Chemistry
Grade Level: 10-12
Day/Time: Thursday 7:50 – 9:50am OR 10:00am – 12:00pm
Instructor: Julie Bingham
Cost: $90 per month + $60 application fee
Online Availability: Students cannot enroll in this class as an Online Real Time student. All students must attend in person. If you are sick or traveling, you can join via Zoom for up to two consecutive weeks.
Book: You can order a used book online or through Amazon. We have been using a newer edition the past couple years. Please be careful if you purchase the book from a former HHL parent/student since they may have the older edition. The title and authors are the same, but the book we are using is a newer edition!  

• Modern Chemistry: Student Edition (1st edition) by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (2009), ISBN: 978-0030367861 

Description: This is a comprehensive, college-prep Chemistry course with a hands-on lab each week.  Hands-on labs, demonstrations and activities will be incorporated each week to help students learn how to implement various chemical concepts and interactions. The labs will also give students a better understanding as to how chemistry applies to life. Students are given opportunities to investigate various areas of chemistry and the integral part of everyday life Chemistry plays. We will explore the periodic table, matter and its changes, the atom, chemical reactions, etc. Homework is given each week with a test every four-five weeks. Of note, due to the demands of this class, we recommend that high school Physical Science be taken prior to this course. Students will need a solid level of problem-solving ability. This advice comes after years of experience and seeing many students do much better in Chemistry after taking our Physical Science class.
Prerequisites: If your child is wanting to skip Physical Science and go straight from Biology to Chemistry, they need to be very advanced in both math and science. We recommend they have an A in both Algebra I & Biology if they try to jump straight to Chemistry. Otherwise, a grade of 70% or higher in Geometry and Physical Science is required to take Chemistry.

Course: Honors Anatomy and Physiology
Grade Level: 11-12
Day/Time: Tuesday 10:00am – 12:00pm
Instructor: TBA
Cost: $90 per month + $60 application fee
Online Availability: Students can enroll in this class as an Online Real Time student, pending teacher approval.
Books: You can order a used book online or on Amazon.

• Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology by Scanlon and Sanders (8th Ed. 2019), ISBN: 978-0803669376

• Student Workbook for Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology by Scanlon and Sanders (8th Ed.), ISBN: 978-0803669383

Description: Students who think they might be interested in a medical-related profession, or those who simply enjoy the awesome structure and function of the human body, will benefit greatly from this class!  We will explore every system of the body in great detail while engaging in advanced hands-on labs including: beginning suturing, casting, blood typing, microscopy, pathology, cat dissections, sheep heart dissections, sheep brain dissections, reaction time, and much more. Over 30 college preparatory labs all in one year! Tests are given every four weeks with a comprehensive final exam at the end of each semester. Students will engage in group projects such as website building, presentations and they even put on a Health Fair that is open to the public at the end of the year! We learn a LOT together in this very challenging course. Come join us! This class fills up extremely quickly, is honors level, and very rigorous.
Prerequisite: A grade of 70% or higher in Biology

Course: Physics - This course is offered every other year. The next time it will be offered is in 2025-2026.
Grade Level: 11-12
Day/Time: TBD
Instructor: TBD
Cost: $90 per month + $60 application fee
Online Availability: Students can enroll in this class as an Online Real Time student, pending teacher approval.
Book: TBD
Description: We are excited to offer a high-level, very demanding, comprehensive college-prep course in physics.  The beauty and strength of our physical world can teach us so much about our Creator.  Students will need to be strong in math and scientific reasoning.  The class will delve into interactions of matter and energy, velocity, acceleration, force, energy, momentum, and charge. Students will be challenged to apply their knowledge of the laws of physics to solve related critical thinking problems. The class will analyze the relationships between force, mass, gravity, and the motion of objects.  They will also evaluate the significance of energy in understanding the structure of matter and the universe, along with the forms and transformations of energy. Further, students will study the properties of waves, electrical and magnetic forces. We will have a 34-week lecture series with some hands-on labs. We will also be using various videos as supplements to the text.
Prerequisites: A grade of 70% or higher in Physical Science (preferred, but some exceptions may be granted), Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II