IPELS Description

Integrated Physical, Environmental and Life Sciences (IPELS) is a science class designed for students taking their first MHS science course. IPELS explores  the natural world through an integration of science disciplines that share critical common ideas. Students will approach topics from both a scientific and societal perspective. The course incorporates engineering design principles while developing scientific models of physical interactions and biochemical systems, with applications for global climate science, as well as forces between objects at various scales. Students will design lab investigations and use data to investigate cause and effect relationships, generate scientific representations, compare structure and function, construct an understanding of energy storage modes, and identify patterns through analysis of proportions and quantities.