The Discovery Center Students visiting the Lower School Discovery Center have the opportunity to choose from a wide range of stimulating, teacher-made activities. Puzzles, games, constructions, and explorations enrich all areas of the curriculum. There are also offerings on the CD-ROM, laserdiscs, audio tape, video, and the Internet. Students apply their thinking, math, science, language arts, and social studies skills to activities developed around various themes such as Picasso, Apples, Graphing, Bats, Columbus, The United Nations, and Composers. Lower School Art Program Students in pre-first through fourth grade participate in weekly art classes with the Athens Academy art specialist.
Students also examine art work from different cultures and time periods.
Slide reproductions, posters, postcards, guest lecturers, and field trips to local museums and galleries, including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, are used to make art and art history come alive. Students also explore various areas of studio art. Students have the opportunity to experiment with drawing, clay, construction, collage, printmaking, architecture, photography, and crafts. Each project study is geared toward the interests and needs of the children within the parameters of their developmental stage. Following the completion and discussion of each studio project, the students work is displayed for all to enjoy.