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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine is taking Honors Bio now, and is really enjoying it and doing well, in spite of an overly-enthusiastic teacher who rarely manages to actually cover all the material. But from what they’ve talked about at home, it does seem quite a bit more complex than when I took in in the late 80s. I’m more humanities-oriented than science-y, and I thought it was easy back then. I even took AP Bio, and I don’t remember covering stuff like chemosynthesis.

Interestingly, because of some weird scheduling quirks, my 10th grader is taking Honors Bio and Honors Chemistry simultaneously, after taking Honors Physics as a freshman. She says she thinks it’s really helped her understanding of the biology concepts to do it this way. Physics has helped to understand things like energy transfer, and even the rudimentary chemistry from Q1 has made the molecular parts of photo-, chemo-, and other types of synthesis more accessible. Apparently the freshmen are having a much harder time with Bio as their first HS science class.

So you may be on to something, OP.[/quote]

Some scientists have been saying for awhile that a beginning Physics class before Bio and Chem would be better.[/quote]

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