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Our science program enables students to experience the richness
and excitement of knowing about and understanding the natural
world, helping them become scientifically literate. They
learn to use appropriate scientific processes and principles
in making personal decisions, and also acquire the skills
to engage intelligently in public discourse and to debate
matters of scientific and technological concern. The school’s
hands-on approach to science enables students to construct
a solid foundation of scientific knowledge and develop an
understanding of how scientific method works. Students investigate,
experiment, gather data, research, organize results and draw
conclusions. The curriculum also focuses on stewardship of
the earth and its resources, in keeping with the Quaker calling
to “Walk gently on the earth.”
K
Units of study include: trees, paper, animals, wood and
fabric • Asking
questions about the world • Recording observations
through drawings • Describing and comparing attributes • Diversity
and interdependence of life
1 & 2
Units of study include: plants, insects, states
of matter, balance and motion, earth materials, and weather • Raising
questions and seeking answers • Introduction to scientific
method • Recording data and observation in pictures,
words and symbols • Caring for living things • Diversity
of life • Life cycles • Exploring the health
concepts of nutrition, cleanliness and exercise
3 & 4
Units of study include: human body, structures
of life, physics of sound, magnetism and electricity, earth
materials, water,
measurement, and ideas and inventions • Using scientific
method • Representing and interpreting data • Record
keeping • Using reference materials • Organisms
and their environments • Human development • Physical
health
5
Units of study include: What is science? • The “tools” of
science (measurement and the metric system, notebooks, experimentation) • How
do we access information? (text books, internet, journals
and other literature)
Major projects include: Tree identification
and leaf collection • Animal
observation • Plant biology • Animal biology 6
Units of study include: History of astronomy, the solar
system and space exploration • Earth’s surface,
processes that shape the Earth, and the Earth’s interior • Earth’s
history • History of astronomy • Mapping the
earth
Major projects include: Moon observation • Topographic
maps • Independent projects 7 & 8 Year A
Units of study include: History of genetics, cellular
structure and function, DNA, mitosis and meiosis, and heredity • Probability • Charles
Darwin and Natural Selection • Evolution, speciation,
and diversity • Population ecology, community ecology,
ecosystems and biomes • Human genetics
Major projects include: Plant breeding 7 & 8 Year B
Units of study include: History of chemistry
and physics • Properties
of matter, solids, liquids and gasses, chemical reactions,
molecular models and pH chemistry • Motion, force,
mass and acceleration, work and machines, energy and power,
fluids, and flight
Major projects include: • Science
fair • Solar
sprint
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