SCIENCE CLASSES  2025 – 26

COST:  $50.00 per family per semester

• Yes, the cost is per family, not student.  We feel this would be a great family style class for High school and older.  Parents and siblings are encouraged to attend at no additional cost.

AGE TARGET:  High school and older.

Course description:

This course will introduce the science topics most relevant to the study of Biblical Creationism.  There will be a video each week from Educate for Life with Kevin Conover followed by a discussion and relevant activities.

Topics covered include:

•             Fossil record vs. evolution
•             Evidence for a world-wide flood
•             Did man walk with dinosaurs?
•             Age of the earth
•             Genetic mutations and Intelligent Design
•             Irreducible complexity  and thermodynamics
•             The Big Bang and the anthropic principle
•             Scientific hoaxes
•             Evolutionary ethics
•             Answering atheism

REGISTER:  Contact EIE at (626) 821-0025

SCIENCE-2-U

ELEMENTARY CLASSES

“Charter Students: Please discuss grade-level requirements for each class with your charter before registration.”

2025 – 26 EIE Science-2-U Schedule

COST:  $400.00 per semester.

Become a novice meteorologist in just 4 short weeks! You will make your own weather station to take home. We’ll discover how a thermometer actually measures the speed of particles by experimenting with the thermometers you will make in class. Learn the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius through measuring samples in class. How do clouds form? Why do clouds have different names? We’ll make our own clouds and see if clouds form better in clean or dirty air. Discover why weather patterns form, which clouds bring rain, and how tornadoes form. Does warm air rise or fall? What about cold air?  How does that make our weather? What is lightning and how is it formed? We’ll have clouds, rain, dew, wind, tornadoes, and lightning right inside our classroom! 

How do you crush cans by using only gas pressure? Can you break a stick with only 1 sheet of newspaper? Do hot gasses act the same as cold gasses? Do hot and cold gasses take up the same amount of space? We’ll lift you off the ground with only plastic baggies and straws – hey you can even lift your teacher! How do you get an egg stuck in a jar and remove it using only gas pressure? If that’s not enough, you’ll build your own hot air balloon and we will fly them on the last day of class. Don’t miss out on the fun!

In this class we will look at more systems of the human body.  We will cover the brain, the nervous system, the skin, and sight. We will do experiments with your own body (don’t worry, nothing hurts). We’ll even dissect a brain!  Don’t miss out!

Learn physical and chemical properties of matter and apply this information to discover the identity of unknown substances.

Are you ready for mysterious capers that need to be investigated?  We will put you to work as a forensic scientist, using actual crime lab techniques to help us solve some interesting cases.  Completion of Detective Investigations #1 is not necessary for participation in this class.  This class is all Hands-On!

Come learn to think and plan like a real engineer. You will learn how to plan projects and change them as you learn new information. You’ll build everything you are learning about so if you are a hands-on kind of kid you’ll love this class!

NO CLASSES MARCH 30 OR APRIL 6  SPRING BREAK

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This is a great time of the year to discover flowers and fruits! Why do plants have flowers? What exactly is a fruit? What is the difference between a fruit and a vegetable? How are flowers and fruits related?  You’ll answer these questions and others by inspecting a variety of fruits and flowers.

What are grunion? Have you ever been on a grunion run? By the end of this class you’ll be ready to take a late night field trip with the class to a local beach to watch this phenomenon called a grunion run. Grunion are strange fish who actually lay their eggs on land instead of in the water like most fish.  Why would they do that?  What do the eggs look like? We’ll look at developing eggs through microscopes so you can see what is going on inside that egg that stays buried in the sand for 2 weeks at a time. Why do the grunion only lay eggs during 2 of the moons’ phases? You will learn about the moon’s cycles and even look at some real grunion and learn all about what they look like and why they live such a strange life. Hopefully, we’ll even be able to hatch some eggs in class (don’t worry, we’ll release them into the ocean so they can grow up). Finally, we’ll do Gyotaku, which is the Japanese art of fish printing. You’ll create beautiful Gyotaku of Grunion to take home with you. Each family is invited to join us on a group grunion run. The exact date will be announced at the start of the class. Each student will also be given a schedule of Grunion runs for the rest of the year to enjoy with their family.

NOTE:  WE WILL NOT DO THE FIELD TRIP BUT WE WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION WHERE YOU CAN OBSERVE A GRUNION RUN.

JUNIOR HIGH CLASSES

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This course is designed for younger middle school students (6th grade). This class will introduce your student to the beauty of our oceans and the organisms that live in them. We will also focus on some local creatures that live right on our beaches, including the California grunion which lays its eggs here in the sand!

The class will include topics such as:

• Intro to oceanography
• Marine habitats (coral reefs, tide pools, kelp forest, sandy beaches, etc.)
• Marine organisms

Some dissections will be performed in this class.

Class meets weekly for 1.5 hours (45 minutes of lecture and 45 minutes of hands-on lab time). Weekly homework assignments from the textbook and lab paperwork will be completed by students at home. Tests will be taken online at home and will be administered by a parent/guardian. A Shark presentation will be completed by each student at the end of 2nd semester. Possible field trips.

The following two Textbooks are required:

Marine Biology-An Introduction to Ocean Systems
Item #:019437 (Rainbow Resources)
ISBN:9780825143236
Author:Amy Sauter Hill
Publisher:Walch Education

Marine Biology Coloring Book
Item #:032462 (AVAILABLE AT EIE)
ISBN:9780062737182  
Author: Thomas M. Niesen; Coloring Concepts Inc. Staff

Note: Lab supplies will be provided when students are In-Person for class. For online students, a supply list will be provided so they may do the experiments with us. The cost of lab supplies should also be covered by charter school funds if purchased through an approved vendor.

This class will include such topics as:

• Intro to Cell Biology
• Protein Synthesis
• Photosynthesis
• Genetics
• Origins
• Ecology

We will also cover classification and will conduct a brief survey of the kingdoms including:

• Archaebacteria
• Eubacteria
• Protists
• Fungi
• Plants
• Animals including:
  • Invertebrates
  • Arthropods
  • Vertebrates

A brief study of some of the systems of the human body is also included.
This course meets weekly for 1.5 hours (45 min. of lecture, 45 min. of lab). Weekly homework assignments from the textbook, lab reports and handouts will be completed by the students at home each week. Tests will be taken online at home and are to be administered by their parent. One in-class practicum test will be given by the instructor (IF POSSIBLE THIS YEAR)

IMPORTANT: Beginning 2025-2026, The Glencoe Life Science text will be the required text. 

HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES

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Cost of class: $475.00/semester.

This course may be for late Jr High or early High School (8th-9th) and is an introduction to chemistry and physics. It is highly recommended that students take this class prior to high school chemistry and physics. A basic understanding of algebra (how to solve for one unknown) is required.

Textbook required:

Glencoe Physical Science
Textbook: ISBN13: 9780078945830, MHID: 0078945836
Publisher: GLEN, 2011, 2012

Note: Lab supplies will be provided when students are In-Person for class.

This A-G level biology course is designed to take the student through a general study of living matter. Students will learn basic biological principles and explore the diversity of life on Earth. They will study the present form and function of organisms, from cells to organ systems, from simple viruses to complex Homo sapiens. There are more than twenty-five hand-on lab/lab activities covering such topics as:

• Biochemistry
• Cell Biology
• Microbiology
• Bacteria
• Viruses
• Fungi
• Protists
• Plants
• Animals & animal behavior
• Ecology

Along with a variety of dissections and modeling, there are student-led investigations that allow the student to pursue individualized areas of inquiry.  In addition, students will learn microscopic and aseptic techniques together with laboratory safety and proficiency.

Emphasis will be on disciplinary core ideas (content), scientific practices, and crosscutting concepts, coupling practice with content to apply the material in a meaningful way to the world, and analyzing & proposing ways to minimize human impacts on biodiversity.  The year culminates in a student-led multi-week lab project with a poster presentation and an optional field trip.

To register, complete the registration page for the location of your choice.

A textbook is required: 

COST:  $575.00 PER SEMESTER

Students who add the HONORS portion will have additional information and assignments to complete. Students will cover material appropriate for them to take the CLEP exam for college credit. Honors students are encouraged to attend weekly biology study hall or office hours.

Study Hall Thursdays: 9:00 am – 10:30 am  (OPTIONAL)