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Welcome!
Welcome to Mr. Bigler's Moodle site. This site serves as the syllabus or curriculum guide for each of the courses that Mr. Bigler teaches. Content for each course includes:
- Assignment Calendar
- Downloadable copies of class notes and other handouts
- Downloadable copies of worksheets and other assignments
- Web-based resources relating to each topic
- Practice problems
This site is also used by Anne Gilman for her EF preMBA and preMA students. Chemistry I is a first-year chemistry course. The college preparatory version meets the requirements of the Massachusetts Department of Education for high school chemistry. The honors version provides additional depth, and is strongly recommended for students who are planning to take AP Chemistry and/or the SAT subject test in chemistry.
Physics is a course that follows the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for high school physics. This course is designed to present topics in mechanics, electricity, magnetism, waves, and optics. The course uses a concept-based approach while simultaneously integrating the student’s mathematical background, in order to develop a meaningful physics foundation. The program will be supported by an interactive laboratory environment where students will gain hands-on experience with the concepts being studied. Environmental Science provides students with scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world, to identify and analyze environmental problems, both natural and man-made, to evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and to examine alternative solutions for resolving and/or preventing them. Topics of study include: interdependence of Earth’s systems; fundamental principles of ecology; human population dynamics; renewable and nonrenewable resources; environmental quality and degradation; environment and society; trade-offs and decision making. Advanced Placement Chemistry II is a rigorous second-year chemistry course for students who have completed Chemistry I at the honors level. According to many college professors, AP Chemistry is equivalent to two semesters of a college honors chemistry course intended for chemistry majors. The course covers several topics not usually covered in Chemistry I, such as thermodynamics, kinetics, equilibrium, electrochemistry, and organic chemistry. This course prepares students to take the College Board's AP Chemistry Exam in May.
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