We go beyond teaching traditional addition, subtraction, fractions, decimals, and other skills, towards teaching higher level thinking and problem solving. In second grade all of our students are successful in science. The purpose is to build a level of interest in our second graders. We want them to ask questions, since science is questioning and problem solving. Students learn that the purpose of science experiments is to explore all of the elements that it encompasses.
Students have many opportunities to explore their environment with hands on lessons.
The science topics that we study are meaningful to the students. At Degan, we do a special economics unit titled Smackers. In this unit, we learn about profit, loss, production, and supply and demand. With our profits we purchase something for the school. We provide many hands-on activities in our study of social studies.