Page 7 - 2017-2018 Class Catalog

designed to explore some of the principles of chemistry. You will be encouraged to carry out your own
experiments using materials that are often found in the home. Along the way, you will use fruit tea to identify
acids and alkalis, investigate chemicals that speed up reactions and experiment with electron transfer reactions.
This should give you a feel for the world of molecules and an idea of some reactions. It should also introduce
some methods to separate chemicals, to find out what chemicals are present in a mixture and ways to change
chemicals from one form to another. There will be opportunities to use the chemistry behind modernist cooking
to experiment with spherification, making of cheese noodles, inventing new deserts, all while learning solid
chemistry. A great course for those who have no chemistry experience. Required Textbook: none Teacher:
Becky Thai Recommended Donation of $15 per weekly class

• Nutrition-(middle and high school) **May be offered 2018-2019** Class meets weekly. Attendance as well as
preparedness for each session is expected. Classes will involve Socratic style discussion, some lecture, teaching
through hands on exploration and some lab work which will include dissection of animal specimens. Our class is
unique among home school biology classes because we use a much more hands on approach and teach students
how to deal with real situations that they may encounter in their future lives with their families. In addition, we
expose them to the veterinary healthcare system in ways that are not often accessible to most home school
families. Optional field trips will also be scheduled to enhance this class. Students leave the class with a working
knowledge of what they were taught and they demonstrate this with a hands on midterm and final exam. Many
students falter when they get to college because they were never required to use the knowledge they gained.
We minimize that difficulty by requiring hands on home work and hands on testing. Required Textbook: Still
Pending Teacher: Pending Recommended Donation of $12 per weekly class

• Honors Medical Biology- (high school) **May be offered 2018-2019** Advanced biology is offered as a year-
long elective science class to enrich what is being offered by parents to meet the typical high school biology
requirement. This is an honors class and is open by invitation only. There will be an emphasis on anatomy and
physiology as well as identifying microbiologicals through serial testing and experimentation. Treatments of
disease and medicinal chemistry is a significant component of the class. Students participating in this course will
have the option of forming a study group to help with memorization. Laboratory experiences will be similar to
those offered in a medical based biology class offered at a community college. There will be a heavy emphasis
on apologetics and living systems. If interested, please contact Dr. Thai. Class Prerequisite: successful
completion of High School Chemistry with no less than 80%. There are no exceptions to this requirement.
Please sign up for general chemistry if you have not yet met that requirement. Quest will not permit any student
to take any high school biology class here before completing chemistry. Required Textbook: Anatomy,
Physiology & Disease for health professions by Booth & Stoia Teacher: Becky Thai Recommended Donation of
$12 per weekly class

• Honors Inorganic Chemistry- **May be offered 2018-2019** (Target HS) Covers a comprehensive variety of
topics for honors high school chemistry such as a lab safety certification, in-depth stoichiometry, solution
chemistry, thermochemistry, nuclear chemistry, energy in chemistry, electrochemistry, and an introduction to
organic chemistry in a fun and engaging experience. Our class is unique among home school chemistry classes
because we use a much more hands on approach with many different models, interactive activities, and real
chemicals that are not accessible to most home school families. Students will leave the class with a collection of
lab reports that demonstrate they completed the classic labs that colleges are looking for upon admission. This
is often a deficit of home educated students because the curriculum normally available does not always supply
this. Students leave the class with a working knowledge of what they were taught. They demonstrate this with a
hands on midterm and final exam. Prerequisite: High School Chemistry and permission from Dr. Thai. Required
Textbook: Baron’s !P prep book supplemented by Zumdahl and Zumdahl Chemistry Teacher: Becky Thai
Recommended Donation of $12 per weekly class