Science is taught by each primary teacher in an integrated way. Ms. Boucher and kindergartners are now focusing on Farm Animals and will visit Old MacDonald s farm next week. They are also investigating snails. Students are looking at living and non-living forces that operate in living systems and are studying habitats. They will extend their environmental studies to Field Studies when they spend two nights at a camp near Salem where there is a stream, pond, meadow, old growth forest and logged forest.
Science begins to be more departmentalized in the fourth and fifth grade levels.
Ms. Popick teaches science to both fourth grade classes and Mr. Nebert the fifth grades. Recently, the fourth graders finished a nutrition unit on having healthy bodies and how food affects the body. Mr. Nebert and the fifth graders recently built an exciting new salt water aquarium that is connected to a videoscope where students can watch and study the live activities of the sea animals on a large screen. They are planting seeds as they study life on earth. Ms. Hay teaches all sixth grade science classes.