All science units are taught using hands-on, inquiry activities that are designed to further the child's understanding of the content and foster the natural curiosity of elementary children.
Variables: This unit helps students discover relationships between objects and events through controlled experimentation. Students develop understanding that relationships always involve interactions, dependencies, and cause and effect.
Environments: This unit introduces students to the basic concepts in environmental biology:
- All living things depend on the conditions in their environment.
- The study of relationships between one organism and its environment builds knowledge of all organisms.
- Such knowledge is important because humans can change environments.
- Changing without awareness of possible consequences can lead to disasters.
