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By the time students enter high school, they have already developed keen powers of observation. The focus in high school centers around the capacity to think scientifically across various disciplines. It is not about specializing in only one or two. Science is a dynamic universal language that develops the capacity to observe, to think, to be open, to learn from history, to be flexible, and to problem-solve thoughtfully.

The goal of our science teaching is to acquaint students with the present position in science and with the historical processes that led to it. This historical study brings home to the students that today’s science is a stage on the path of human development.

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Tuition for the science Main Lessons

Middle School Science Courses

Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Biology, Botany

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7th Grade Ecology

Ecology is the study of organisms and their physical environment. In this 7th grade ecology course, we will begin with the study of organization levels.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
Biology musculature

Muscles, Bones, and Senses

During this 4 week course the structure, anatomy and physiology of the human skeleton, our senses and the muscles will be discovered by doing many experiments and assignments.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
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8th Grade Chemistry

Through laboratory demonstrations and classroom discussions we will study the role of carbohydrates (sugars and starches), oils, fats and proteins in outer nature and in human nourishment.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
Combustion

7th Grade Chemistry

Chemistry, the science of transformation, is taught in the seventh grade not only as a laboratory science, but as a means of extending the students’ observation of the transforming earth and humanity.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
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8th Grade Physics

8th grade physics focuses on how knowledge of natural phenomena has led to discoveries and inventions that have transformed our society. The block consists of a mixture of laboratory demonstrations, hands-on experiments, and group work.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
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7th Grade Physics

We will play with the relationship between degree of exertion and mechanical advantage of these machines, as well as the role they play in complex machines we depend on. This particular physics block embodies a lively balance of playful inventiveness, engineering, and some mathematical thinking.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
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6th Grade Physics

This block introduces the sixth grader to laboratory science. Working from a phenomenological approach, the senses are utilized to determine what we experience in the world around us, attempting to seek answers to the emerging questions of “What is happening here? How do I know? Where else do I experience this in the world? How are they connected?”
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
Astronomy

6th Grade Astronomy

6th Graders will to look up and out, contrasting and balancing their developmental growth towards the Earth. In this block we will once again combine both personal observation and scientific data to familiarize ourselves with the members and movements of the Heavens.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
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6th Grade Geology and Mineralogy

As the sixth grader’s body begins to sink closer to the Earth, emotionally and physically, a study of the Earth and its features helps to ground them in understanding better this floating rock they live upon.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
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5th Grade Botany

Following the fourth grade study of the animal kingdom, the fifth grader now takes up the study of the plant kingdom, or botany. Students combine personal observations and teacher-led information to delve into the relationship of the human person to the plant world.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26

High School Science Courses

Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Biology

Land Surveying

Surveying, the science of accurately locating points on the earth for the purpose of making maps, serves as an excellent example of how mathematics and technology can be applied in the modern world. This in-person main lesson will transport students into the magical world of numbers, geometry, and map-making during three weeks of fieldwork and classroom sessions.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26

Cells, Genetics, & Embryology

We will cover the anatomy and physiology of plant and animal cells, cell-division, cell-differentiation and cancer cells. We will explore the human embryological development and discover the history and developments of genetic research, genetics and heredity, and the central role that DNA and RNA play in protein synthesis.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
Cooking chemsitry

Acids, Bases, and Salts

During the course, the relationship between acids, bases and salts are discovered with different experiments. We will start using the concepts of atoms, molecules and ions. From there, the students will learn about how hydrogen and oxygen play a key role in acids and bases and how the concentration of these ions influence the pH.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
Combustion

College Prep Science

During this 8 week course we will start with different historical, the most recent atom models and also what has been discoverd during the latest research projects. We will continue with basic formulas, how these can be balanced and the proportions between atoms in molecules and reactants/products in more complex chemical reactions
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
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Botany: in Nature and in Farming

Join us for 10th, 11th, and 12th grade Botany in the small farming community of Rutland, Ohio. Study the plants of Appalachia by experiencing their habitat, morphology, and uses. Come get into the woods, get your hands in the dirt, and get the plants in you.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2026-27
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Organic Chemistry

Organic Chemistry is the study of the inner nature of living things. Building on the 5 organic compounds explored in 8th grade Chemistry and the process of photosynthesis, this block further connects the student to the formation of the substances that form the living body, as well as to the living world in industrial processes.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2026-27
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Electricity & Magnetism

We now move into the realm of the invisible. Through experimentation, scientists have made the properties of electricity and magnetism apparent and tangible, and engineers have made them practical and effective. Indispensable as electricity and magnetism are to society today, their essence is yet elusive. It is not with the eye, but only a mind well-trained that their true nature can be perceived.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
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Mechanics

In tenth grade, our studies focus on mechanics, which was first introduced in seventh grade using the principle of mechanical advantage through “simple machines”. History plays a significant part of this tenth grade main lesson, as we come to appreciate the contributions of both Galileo and Newton in the development of the modern scientific method.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2026-27
Anatomy

9th/10th Grade Anatomy & Physiology

This anatomy and physiology block allows students to gain insight into their changing physical architecture, emotions, and rhythms. Physical activities and scientific illustration will connect the students more deeply with these topics.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
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Astronomy

Astronomy has shaped and guided the development of math and science perhaps more than any other field. Through this four-week course, we will become familiar with the motions of the sun, moon, stars, and neighboring planets through the sky, and gain an understanding of what they teach us about our place in the Cosmos.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
Biology cells

Embryology & Genetics

We will cover the anatomy and physiology of plant and animal cells, cell-division, cell-differentiation and cancer cells. We will explore the human embryological development and discover the history and developments of genetic research, genetics and heredity, and the central role that DNA and RNA play in protein synthesis.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2024-25
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Optics: The Physics of Visual Experience

In this physics course we attempt to understand the nature of light, how it interacts with matter, and our visual experience, including perception and conception. We will cover some traditional optics topics, using a phenomenological approach. We also will delve into the nature of perception and how we interpret the world.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26
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Thermal Physics

In our quest to understand the nature of heat, we become familiar with: thermal equilibrium; conduction, convection, and radiation; temperature scales; absolute zero; melting, boiling, freezing, fusion, vaporization, condensation, and sublimation; solids, liquids, gases, and plasma; and the interaction of pressure, volume, and temperature.
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Academic year offered:

  • 2025-26

What to Expect

What to expect from our humanities 4-week main lesson courses

Workload

As an intensive main lesson block, students are expected to spend a total of about three hours per day on their studies.  This includes attending class, hands-on experiments at home, reading assignments, and doing written work.

Live Sessions

The daily live sessions are critical for developing human connection, and for engaging in genuine conversation with your classmates.  All of our humanities main lessons meet live with the teacher for one hour, four days per week.  Enrollment for these classes are expected to be between ten and twenty-five students.  Our policy is that our live meetings with students are not recorded.

Recordings

For some classes, in addition to the live session, the teacher may record a short presentation.  These recordings are general fairly short (between 5 and 25 minutes).  

Friday Group Meetings

Some of these main lessons meet in a small group of students (without the instructor) on the one day that the live session with the teacher does not meet.

Assignments

We will provide assignments for the students.

Science Kits

We will send science kits for some of the courses. International students, please sign up at least 6 weeks before the start date to ensure you receive the materials in time for the class. 

Parent Meetings

The instructor will lead a parent meeting in order to answer questions and coach the parents on how to best serve their role.  There will be one parent meeting before the block begins.  

Course Reports

We will provide a course report at the end of the course.

Financial Assistance

We have limited funds for offering financial assistance to families.  You can fill out our financial assistance form to request this.  This form must be submitted and approved before you enroll (both registration and payment).

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