Chemistry Lab Methods is a semester long laboratory course which fulfills 0.5 credits for high school graduation and meets the criteria set by the HEC Board as a college prep, lab-based course. In this course students explore through inquiry the fundamental concepts of chemistry – such as atoms, compounds, periodic table, nuclear processes, bonding and chemical reactions. Skills taught in this course will provide students with the content and lab techniques necessary to move into higher level chemistry courses. An emphasis is placed on critical thinking, problem solving and scientific inquiry. Additionally, students will use data collection devices and provide quantitative and qualitative analysis of major concepts. This approach fulfills a critical need for students to take a lab based science course and prepares them to take an algebra based science course to fulfill the HEC Board requirement.