High School Chemistry with Labs

 PSP Sports And More is excited to announce
this NEW class starting in September 2012.

This class will be facilitated by Alicia Doyle but it will be the responsibility of the student’s parents to monitor, screen, and grade all work done for this course. Further, any inclusion of the curriculum materials in the student’s coursework, and the grades involved are the responsibility of the parent.

Register for High School Chemistry

As with all our programs this is not a drop off program; at least one parent/guardian must stay with their student.

Please see our PSP SPORTS AND MORE guidelines.  The guidelines are our Statement of Faith, Home Education Philosophy, Code of Conduct, & Dress Code.

When you register, you sign the statement on the back of the registration form stating that you and your family agree with and will abide by these guidelines.

Find our Registration Form Here

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This page contains the following information:

• Level of instruction and costs
• Course description
• Location
• When we hold classroom sessions

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Level of Instruction

We are offering for high school age/capable students Apologia Chemistry with labs.  The Exploring Creation With Chemistry course is a high school, college preparatory course.  Please  note that this class has a prerequisite of Algebra 1 for participation.¹

• Even if your student is not science-oriented, he or she will benefit from exposure to Biology, Chemistry, AND Physics. You never know when a lifelong interest may be sparked!

The costs are:

• Class fee is $60 per semester per student.   Pre-registration discount of $5 applies if paid by January 3, 2013.
  • Payment on or before 1/3/13 will be $55 per student.  You can pay by mail (with a postmark no later than 1/3/13).  See our Contact Us page for mailing address.
•  Curriculum fee for Chemistry is $50 per family and $50 per student lab material fee (curriculum & lab fee of $100 must be paid by August 15,2012).  We have arranged discount pricing by placing one order for multiple copies of the curriculum and multiple lab kits. This is a one-time fee for the whole year.
  • Mail your Curriculum/Lab fee, along with your completed registration form (postmarked no later than 8/15/12).  See our Contact Us page for mailing address.
  • The $50 curriculum cost includes one (1) Apologia Chemistry 2^nd Edition Full course CD Rom per family.  The $50 lab material fee allows three students to share one lab kit.

The total cost for one (1) student for the first semester would be $160 ($150 for pre-registration) and $110 ($100 for pre-registration) for additional students from the same family.  Second semester costs will be $60 per student.   If you do not pre-register, you can register on the first day of class but we must have your Curriculum/Lab fee of $100 and Lab fee of $50 for any additional students mailed (postmarked no later than 8/15/12) so we can order your materials.

A note about our fees:

Our fees are designed to pay for our expenses and we work to keep them as low as possible. If cost becomes an issue, please contact us for different options. We are here to support private Christian homeschool families!

We also offer an additional $5 discount per student on your course fee.  See if you qualify!

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Course Description

Our weekly sessions will provide reinforcement, answer questions, and provide lab work.  This course is designed to be a first-year high school chemistry course and gives the student a rigorous foundation in chemistry, in order to prepare him or her for a college-level course. The course covers significant figures, units, classification, the mole concept, stoichiometry, thermochemistry, thermodynamics, kinetics, acids and bases, redox reactions, solutions, atomic structure, Lewis structures, molecular geometry, the gas laws, and equilibrium. Students who take and understand this course will be very well-prepared for a tough university chemistry course.

Apologia also offers supplemental reading suggestions for the Chemistry course. They are:

• What is Creation Science, Dr. Henry M. Morris and Dr. Gary E. Parker, Master Books, Paperback ISBN 0890510814
• Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense? Dixy Lee Ray, Regnery Gateway, Hardcover ISBN 0895265125, Paperback ISBN 0060975989

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Location

Classes will be held at:

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When We Hold Classroom Sessions

This class will last for the full school year 2012/13 (two semesters) and will meet on Mondays, 12:30 PM to 2:15 PM approximately 3-4 times a month.  The start date will be Monday, September 10, 2012 and the course will be completed May 2013.

The Fall schedule is as follows:

September  10, 17, 24, 2012

October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2012

November 5, 19, 26, 2012

Winter/Spring schedule is as follows:

January 7, 14, 21, 28

February 4, 11, 25

March 4, 11, 18, 25

April 1, 22, 29

May 6, 13

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1   In order to be able to understand the course work, the student MUST have completed Algebra I.  A student’s mathematics level is the key factor for his or her success or failure in the high school sciences. If you make sure that your child is well prepared mathematically for the science course he or she will take, you will have gone a long way toward assuring your student’s academic success.