Science

 Grade Level: 7
Prerequisite: None
Length: One quarter
Description: Laguna's seventh grade health classes will focus on general health and wellness (including personal hygiene), facts about hazardous substances, mental health, building and maintaining healthy relationships, and human trafficking.

Grade Level: 7
Prerequisite: None
Length: Two semesters
Description: This course provides opportunities for students to explore concepts in life, earth, and physical science. Students will be actively engaged in the investigation of topics such as the scientific process, measurement and tools of science, the properties and chemical interactions of matter, the geological history of the Earth, and the dynamic changes that occur to populations and ecosystems. Through these investigations, students will also be focusing on the crosscutting concepts of patterns, cause and effect, scale/proportion/quantity, systems and system models, energy and matter, structure and function, and stability and change.

Grade Level: 8
Prerequisite: Science 7
Length: Two semesters
Description: Laguna's eighth grade science classes are aligned with the current NGSS curriculum. We focus on science and engineering practices, sound, light, energy and waves, astronomy, Earth through time, energy, forces and collisions, and human impacts on the environment. 

Grade Level: 7
Prerequisite: Students must be bilingual and biliterate in English and Spanish, and be recommended by their 6th grade teacher
Length: Two semesters
Description: This course provides opportunities for students to explore concepts in life, earth and physical science. Students will be actively engaged in the investigation of topics such as the scientific process, measurement and tools of science, heredity and adaptation, electromagnetic force, gravity and kinetic energy, waves, planetary science, and family life education. Through these investigations, students will also be focusing on the crosscutting concepts of patterns, cause and effect, scale/proportion/quantity, systems and system models, energy and matter, structure and function, and stability and change.