9-12 Science Courses Requirements & Course Approval.

High School Science Course Development and Approval: Physical Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Science, Anatomy & Physiology, and the AP Sciences have their own frameworks and do not need to have a course approval form submitted to the Arkansas Department of Education.  Other science courses (Genetics, Botany, Zoology, Oceanography, International Baccalaureate Sciences, Active Physics, Geology, Astronomy, and Meteorology) will need a course submission.  Earth Science is no longer an approved course for High School.  Schools with this approval will have to reapply with a Geology course or choose another course.

 

All high school science courses must have laboratories and courses should be a combination of lecture, discussion, activities, and laboratory experiments to be accepted by institutions of high education and to meet state framework expectations.

Vocational courses (food science, aviation science, military science medical science, etc.) are not considered science and are not taught on same level as the above sciences.  Most do not includes the appropriate level of mathematics.