Science

Our Science specialists teach students on a rotating basis for a 50-minute period. Students work on specific standards that vary with each specialists' curriculum. Students enjoy a variety of hands-on activities, and environmentally focused lessons.

Kindergarten Activities:

• observing seasonal changes
• trees
• wood and paper
• fabric
• learning about the various types of defenses that animals use
• recognizing and describing various animal coverings

First-Grade Activities

• air and weather
• balance and motion
• pebbles, sand and silt
• displaying and interpreting information in graph form

Second-Grade Activities:

• solids, liquids and gases
• reviewing seasonal changes and how they affect the environment and its inhabitants
• studying the life cycles of insects, plants and animals

Third-Grade Activities:

• physics of sound
• earth materials
• structures of life

Fourth-Grade Activities:

• water
• magnetism and electricity
• human body

Fifth-Grade Activities:

• understanding how changing variables can affect experiment outcomes
• perform controlled experiments
• investigate the use of simple machines