We teach the scientific method of experimentation to gain insight into the collection and processing of scientific data. Processing skills are the tools stressed for scientific inquiry to gain knowledge. These skills involve observing, classifying, communicating, sequencing, recording information, interpreting data, comparing and contrasting, drawing conclusions based upon experiences, inferring, predicting and hypothesizing. We recognize that while the scientific method is generally used in experimentation, there is nothing wrong with gaining insights quite by accidental discovery. It is important for students to realize that science is all around them and that we all practice science, to some extent, daily.
Science is the investigation and interpretation of the natural and physical world.
Most of our science units interrelate with our integrated language instruction. We integrate Hebrew language vocabulary wherever possible.