2024 - 2025 MCPS High School Course Bulletin

SCI2086A/SCI2086B MCPSPIB Chemistry A

0.5 credit per semester

The materials of our environment, their properties, and the way in which they react with each other are studied. Through a synthesis of laboratory work and descriptive and theoretical chemistry, the student gains factual knowledge drawn from the whole field of chemistry. Topics include properties of matter, atomic theory, chemical bonds and reaction kinetics, periodicity and radioactivity, organic chemistry, and thermodynamics.

One year of biology
9 - 10 - 11 - 12
No repeats for credit

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