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How do we harness energy from the wind? How do solar panels produce electricity? How do we make sense of numbers to describe these physical relationships? In this introductory-level program, renewable energy will be our entry point for exploring how algebra and physics explain the world around us. We will emphasize representations, reasoning, and problem solving. We will use the language of mathematics to describe and communicate important relationships between observations and measurements in physics and other fields of science. Integrated reasoning in math and physics will be supplemented with topics from educational psychology, including the nature of scientific knowledge, metacognition, novice/expert differences, and the mind-brain connection.

Students will develop and demonstrate their learning through active in-class participation, homework assignments, papers, labs, and exams. Laboratory activities will solidify students' understanding of the program concepts, as well as develop data collection skills and mathematical modeling abilities. Students successfully completing this program will have covered the equivalent of one quarter of math (college algebra or pre-calculus), physics with laboratory (algebra-based), introductory level educational psychology, and introduction to renewable energy. Students will be prepared for further introductory science programs such as Computer Science Foundations, Integrated Natural Science, and/or Matter and Motion.

Note: Students who take the fall quarter program may not enroll in the winter repeat program.

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Fall Open

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Olympia

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