The 7th grade science curriculum, Life Science, connects all students to the life around and within them.
Students collect, examine, compare, sketch, discuss, and delight in the natural world.
Using the rich New England fall season, students are regularly outdoors catching, observing, and studying similarities, habits, adaptations, and patterns. Pond animals, trees, leaves, and the forest floor are examined in great detail while students learn about maintaining live specimens, making a leaf collection, using dichotomous keys, and the systematic sampling of diversity in an area. As students move indoors for the winter, the program may focus on plant growth and development. Of particular fascination to the students are the systems of their own bodies. Students link winter and spring seasons with a study of birds.