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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]

Yes! A few short years ago, when I actively taught in MCPS, the biology teachers were livid that the courses were being rearranged so that Bio was before chem. Given how molecular based biology has become over the last 50 years, one really can't do modern molecules-first biology without a solid chemistry background. So...biology teachers predicted this problem, but were of course ignored by the Wondrous Beast known as Central Office.

Sigh[/quote]

Physics and chemistry has more math so a lot of kids struggle immediately.   There is a weird bias that bio is easier since the kids spend so much time on bio in middle compared to chemistry and physics.[/quote]

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