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crime, abstraction, String       isolated as separate units.  JAVA   will be their final task to submit a
               processing, loops, arrays, and big   will be the language of Computer   theoretically substantiated
               data structures. At the conclusion   Science Advanced Placement/AB.   resolution as well as a series of
               of this course, students will create                              originally designed prototypes that
               a performance task, and explore a   PATHOLOGY &                   confront their defined issue.
               performance task in preparation for
               submission to the college board.   BIOENGINEERING                 MANUFACTURING 1

               MEDICAL ANATOMY &                Grades: 11-12                    Grades: 11-12
               PHYSIOLOGY
                                                Duration: Year Long
               Grades: 10-12                    Course                           Duration: Year Long
                                                                                 Course
               Duration: Year Long Course       Pathology and Related Principles
                                                of Biotechnology is an elective and   This is an advanced level industrial
               This is a two-semester course in   the second option of a two-course   technology course which integrates
                                                                                 drafting, CAD, wood, metals, and
               anatomy and physiology for college   sequence for the senior ERHS   plastics.  In this course students
               preparatory or honors-level      STEM student. This course merges   study design, manufacturing and
               students in grades 11-12. This   lectures of traditional pathologic   management components of
               laboratory- oriented course      conditions with the unique       modern industry while reinforcing
               includes learning all systems of the   approach of clay modeling   academic learning, creative
               human body and basic chemistry   techniques, integrating clinical   expression and role playing in an
               all taught with examples related to   skills and biotechnological   industrial setting.  Students are
               the medical field. In addition,   innovation to bridge the realm of   evaluated on participation, design
               students also learn about related   medical intervention with disease   concepts, creativity, computer-
               health careers, disease and      process. In alignment with NGSS,   aided drafting and computer
               disorders and medical            the five units within this course are   automated manufacturing
               applications that can be applied   arranged to address all of the   (CAD/CAM) skills, computer
                                                human body organ systems. There
               to the medical field.            are three key phases per unit.  In   numerical control (CNC)
                                                the first phase, students will dive   machining, and dimensional
               11th GRADE STEM                  into the anatomy and physiology of   inspection of the final product.
                                                disease. The majority of methods
               TRACK                            employed herein are intentionally   Sports and Emergency
                                                hands-on, allowing students to   Med 1
               AP COMPUTER SCIENCE              explore tissue organization prior to
                                                and following structural change.
                                                There will be an emphasis on the   Grades: 11-12
               Grades: 10-12                    difference between normal and
                                                abnormal conditions and what     Duration: Year Long
               Duration: Year Long              challenges arise once a disease   Course
               Course                           presents itself. In the second phase
                                                the class will take a clinical focus.   This course will prepare students
               Computer Science Advanced        Students will advance their health   for jobs such as fitness/exercise
               Placement/AB places major        occupations skills by learning to   assistant, physical therapy aide, or
                                                operate a collection of diagnostic
               emphasis on programming                                           athletic trainer assistant.  Students
               methodology, algorithms, and data   and/or therapeutic instrumentation.   will learn anatomy and physiology,
               structures.  Applications of     This introduction to a host of   body mechanics, vital signs, first
                                                medical devices is included to
               computing provide the context in                                  aid, nutrition, exercise physiology,
               which these subjects are treated;   enhance the students’ comfort level   injury care and maintenance,
                                                with actual equipment central to
               applications are used to develop   medicine today. At the core of each   patient interaction skills and use of
               student awareness of the need for                                 equipment and techniques to aid
               particular algorithms and data   unit’s third phase, is the       patients in rehabilitation.  Subject
                                                engineering investigation. Initially,
               structures, as well as to provide                                 to an acceptable interview with a
               topics for programming           students will be exposed to      cooperating employer, students will
               assignments to which students can   historical dilemmas of the clinical   train at a community location such
                                                environment and the correlating
               apply their knowledge.  A particular                              as hospitals, clinics, sports/fitness
               programming language constitutes   solutions derived by professionals.   facilities and convalescent care to
               the vehicle for implementing     Next, individuals will experiment   practice and develop skills learned
                                                with aspects of engineering that   in the classroom
                                                overlap with features of normal
               computer-based solutions to      human physiology. To conclude
               particular problems.  Treatments of   each unit, the students will engage   AP BIOLOGY 1A-1B
               computer systems and the social   in an iterative process by which
               implications of computing are    they will, in teams, identify their   Grades: 11-12
               integrated into the course and not   own unsolved medical dilemma. It
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