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: Jennifer Clark
Cost: $88 per month + $70 application fee
Online Availability: Students can enroll in this class as an Online Real Time student, pending teacher approval.
Book:  Order used or new online through Amazon, Thrift Books, AbeBooks, McKay’s  or order directly through Abeka. 

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

Supply List: 1” three-ring binder, notebook paper, pencils, and binder dividers
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 + $70 application fee
Online Availability: Students can enroll in this class as an Online Real Time student, pending teacher approval.
Book: Order used or new online through Amazon, Thrift Books, AbeBooks, or try McKay’s.

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

Supply List: 1” three-ring binder, notebook paper, binder dividers, a pack of graph paper, and pencils
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. 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. Of note, if your child struggled in Algebra I we highly recommend this class before Chemistry. 

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 + $70 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: Order used or new online through Amazon, Thrift Books, AbeBooks, or try McKay’s.  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 

Supply List: 1” three-ring binder, notebook paper, binder dividers, and pencils
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, especially if your son/daughter struggled with Algebra I. 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 a student wants to skip Physical Science and go straight from Biology to Chemistry, they should have received a solid A in both Algebra I and Biology. We encourage most students to take Physical Science after Biology with a prerequisite of 70% or higher in both Algebra I and Biology.

Course: Honors Anatomy and Physiology

Grade Level: 11-12
Day/Time: Tuesday 10:00am - 12:00pm
Instructor: Jennifer Clark
Cost: $90 per month + $70 application fee
Online Availability: Students can enroll in this class as an Online Real Time student, pending teacher approval.
Books: Order used or new online through Amazon, Thrift Books, AbeBooks, or try McKay’s.

• 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

Supply List: 1” three-ring binder, notebook paper, pencils, and binder dividers
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 and Physical Science