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Science

Coram Deo Academy teaches science in the context of our historical Christian worldview, studying the nature of God as revealed in the order and beauty of His creation. Instruction at all grade levels promotes both science literacy and hands-on participation in data gathering and analysis.

Coram Deo Academy teaches science in the context of our historical Christian worldview, studying the nature of God as revealed in the order and beauty of His creation.

Students develop critical thinking and reasoning skills while reading and writing about science, calculating, and performing scientific experiments.

Coram Deo Academy offers a robust selection of dynamic science courses for both logic and rhetoric level students. Logic level students study World Geography, Life Science, and Physical Science. At the rhetoric level, all students continue their study of God’s creation through biology, chemistry, and physics. During the junior year, depending on campus specific schedules students may have a choice of Advanced Placement (AP) Chemistry or AP Environmental Science. Senior physics students have the option of taking AP Physics. Students develop critical thinking and reasoning skills while reading and writing about science, calculating, and performing scientific experiments. CDA graduates are prepared for any future field of study, from engineering to pre-medicine.

AP Chemistry: 11

Depending on the campus schedule, juniors may have a choice between AP Environmental Science or AP Chemistry.

The AP Chemistry course provides students with a college-level foundation to support future advanced course work in chemistry. Students cultivate their understanding of chemistry through inquiry-based investigations, as they explore topics such as: atomic structure, intermolecular forces and bonding, chemical reactions, kinetics, thermodynamics, and equilibrium.
AP Environmental Science: 11

Depending on the campus schedule, juniors may have a choice between AP Environmental Science or AP Chemistry.

Advanced Placement Environmental Science provides students with the scientific principles, concepts, methodologies, laboratories and experiences to understand the interrelationships of the natural world. Students will understand how the components of the natural world interconnect, and will learn how to identify environmental problems, both natural and man-made. In addition to studying environmental problems of the past, present, and future, students also explore decision-making processes and understand that proposed solutions are based not only on scientific knowledge and data but are also influenced by society, politics, culture, and economics. Throughout this course, students will develop a greater appreciation of their environment and hopefully, become better stewards of the world.
AP Physics: D

The AP Physics course provides students with a college-level foundation to support future advanced course work in physics. Students cultivate their understanding of physics through classroom study, in-class activity, and hands-on, inquiry-based laboratory work as they explore concepts like change, force interactions, fields, and conservation. This course contains the elements of CDA's Physics course with additional study to prepare students to sit for the AP Physics C test. The aim of the course is to inspire admiration for the regularity and rationality of the created order.
Astronomy: CC Core Option
Astronomy: RS

This course provides students with an introduction to Astronomy. This course will primarily be conceptual and not computational. Major chapters and sections covered in this course will be: The Cosmic Landscape, The Cycles of the Sky, The Rise of Astronomy, Backward Astronomy, Gravity and Motion, Light and Atoms, Telescopes, and Cosmology.
Biology Lab: 9 D
Biology Lab: 9 FM
Biology: 9

Description: Biology students receive a foundational overview of all aspects that encompass the study of living organisms. They will learn the fundamental principles that govern organisms including physical and chemical properties of life, cell structure and function, the transfer of energy through metabolic systems, cellular reproduction, genetics, taxonomy and the three domains of living organisms. Worldview perspectives are woven throughout the course as the students consider the impact of living organisms throughout history and understand that science is an integral tool in exploring and understanding the world around them. Emphasis is placed on the theme of interconnection and their role as manager of the world bestowed upon them by God.
Biology: 9

iology students receive a foundational overview of all aspects that encompass the study of living organisms. They will learn the fundamental principles that govern organisms including physical and chemical properties of life, cell structure and function, the transfer of energy through metabolic systems, cellular reproduction, genetics, taxonomy and the three domains of living organisms. Worldview perspectives are woven throughout the course as the students consider the impact of living organisms throughout history and understand that science is an integral tool in exploring and understanding the world around them. Emphasis is placed on the theme of interconnection and their role as manager of the world bestowed upon them by God.
Chemistry Lab: 10 D
Chemistry Lab: 10 FM
Chemistry: 10

In this introduction to chemistry, students gain an appreciation of the order and patterns imposed on God’s creation and man’s continuing quest to understand it. Students learn from class lecture and guided inquiry during two classes per week and practice laboratory procedure and demonstrations during Friday laboratory time. Major topics covered include energy, atoms, elements, naming, reactions, stoichiometry, gases, solutions, equilibrium, acids and bases, and nuclear chemistry.
Dual Credit General Physics: 12 CC

Students taking dual credit physics have an additional class/lab day to engage the physics course topics in greater depth.
Dual Credit General Physics: 12 FM
Physics: 12

Physics is an algebra-based, introductory course covering Newton's laws, statics, thermodynamics, optics, electrostatics, DC circuits, waves, and electromagnetics. Though the course elements are many, their aim is one: to inspire admiration for the regularity and rationality of the created order.

Faculty

Bridget Schober

Science Department Chair, RS Science - FM
Bio
Bridget Schober has been teaching at Coram Deo since 2009. Starting as a chemistry teacher, she now teaches tenth grade chemistry, AP chemistry, and senior physics in addition to serving as science chair. Bridget is married to Rudy and has two daughters that attend the Flower Mound campus. The Schobers attend First United Methodist Church in Lewisville where Bridget is active in Adult Education.

A native of Ohio, Bridget graduated magna cum laude from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. She then worked for Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio for five years as a Product Development Engineer for Pampers diapers where she met her husband. After backpacking in Europe for three months, she relocated to Highland Village and felt led to try teaching. She taught physics at Lewisville High School for three years after completing the Texas Alternative Certification Program.

While her children were small, Bridget was a stay at home mom and part-time math and science tutor. She is very grateful to have found Coram Deo Academy and to have the opportunity to be a part of CDA students’ educations.
Paul Aarseth

RS Science, Electives - CC
Michael Boos

RS Science - CC
Brooke Bryant

LS History, Science, Bible, English- FM
Ryan Bryson

RS Science - FM
Leng Ea

LS History, Science, Bible, English, English; Athletics, Electives - FM
Libby Feray

LS/RS History, LS Speech, RS Theology - Dallas
Hannah Galvan

LS Bible, History, English, Science, Writing - Dallas
Amy Jones

LS Science - FM
Kora Lehmann

LS Science, Electives - Dallas
Shelley Lessert

Co-Asst Math Chair; LS Math, Science; Electives - CC
Sarah Lloyd

LS Science, Math, Electives - FM
Lauren Martyn

RS Science - Dallas
DeAnn Pitts

LS Science - FM
Alina Rhey

LS Science, Bible - CC
Kimberly Townsend

LS Bible, History, Science; Electives - CC
Rebekah Valerius

LS/RS Science - CC
Winsor Vanderhill

Science Asst. Chair, LS/RS Science - Dallas
Laura Wilson

RS Science - Dallas