Students also learn about scientific inquiry by modeling through the videos and through presenting and comparing their work to others' work. Content includes characteristics of living organisms focusing on form and function and organisms and environments including biomes. Students identify problems, propose solutions, implement solutions, evaluate the results, and communicate to others. Every year students explore and distinguish between natural and human made objects. As a curriculum that incorporates many technologies, Galaxy provides for extensive and appropriate use of technology.
Students explore natural resources, natural hazards, and personal health in most units.
As a program that is both technology facilitated and requires students to use applications of many technologies to be active scientists, science and technology in society is extensively encountered. Through all units students come to understand science as a human endeavor as they are the scientists, they collaborate with others, and they see science modeled on video. They are exposed to the Nature of Science as they do experiments, find and interpret patterns, and build explanatory models. They are exposed to many diverse individuals who have contributed to science knowledge. All rights reserved.