Students meet twice a week in the science lab for a total of one hour and
45 minutes. To maximize learning opportunities the curriculum is flexible
and remains open to variation each year.
Curriculum
Maps and Magnetism
Reading maps (symbols, scale and contour line)
Scale
Properties and applications of magnets
Using a compass
Human Body
The skeletal and muscular systems
The skin
Health education
Simple Machines
Concepts of work, force, effort, and friction
The lever, pulley, wheel/axle, wedge, and inclined plane
Lego Dacta explorations
Electricity
Simple circuits
Conductors/insulators
Series and parallel circuits
Make a flashlight project
Microbiology
Growing molds and fungi
Looking at simple cells
Applications of microbiology in food: yeasts and yogurt
Experimenter's Workshop and Final Project
Designing and conducting independent inquiries
Developing hypotheses, following procedures, taking
measurements, displaying data, forming conclusions, and evaluating experiments
Final project, culmination of experimenter's workshop:
independently chosen, designed, conducted, and presented by students
