Philosophy and Goals

It is the opinion of the members of the Hoffman Estates High School Science Department that today's student is entering a world in which science and technology play an ever-increasing role. Our goal is to prepare this student for his or her role as an informed and productive citizen of the world by ...

• providing science facts and figures.
• practicing scientific thinking.
• studying world problems that science and technology have caused.
• studying ways that science and technology can help solve world problems.
• practicing the scientific method of problem solving.
• providing hands-on experiences through laboratory work.
• practicing laboratory safety on a consistent basis.
• providing exercises that offer connections to "the real world."