SCIENCE

We believe that scientific literacy develops an understanding of how and why events occur as they do in the natural world; promotes a way of learning about the behavior of the universe and the matter and energy it contains; organizes knowledge so it is comprehensible and useful, develops models and theories that correlate with past observations and predict future events.  We believe that the science program is:

• Constructivist in that all learning is an active preocess of construction, meaning, and that active construction of meaning is facilitated when teachers create an environment that focus students to be physically and mentally engaged.
• Integrated in taht through a thematic approach to topics, studetns can explore great ideas in science across disciplines allowing students to make connections more readily.
• Continnum-based in that it allows students to revisit concepts on a periodic basis in order to give them opportunities for which, deep levels of comprehension building arise from the experience of science.
• Related to real-world technology and must allow students to gain real world experience, engage actively in real world studies, place students in contact with community leaders and parents/guardians whose lives and work are science-based.