Academics

Middle School : Science & Technology

If students are to come to know and own the questions of science and technology, they need to engage with them the way scientists and technologists do. They wrestle with contradictions, puzzle through paradoxes, evaluate evidence, and search for connections. These pursuits require students to deal with the "real world" -- both natural and human-made -- and they often find that one question just lead to another.

Goals of the Science & Technology Curriculum

1. Significant science and technology learning builds on students' curiosity and intuitions.
2. Investigation and problem solving are central to science and technology education.
3. Students learn best in an environment that acknowledges respects and accommodates each student’s background, individuality and gender.
4. Assessment in science and technology is an opportunity for student learning, a tool for guiding instruction, as well as a way to document student progress.
5. Science and technology connect with other disciplines, and have a particularly integral relationship with mathematics.
6. A comprehensive K-8 Science and Technology program includes science every year. Emphasis on the underlying principles of each discipline and their connections across the domains of science is critical.
7. Communication and collaboration are essential to teaching and learning in science and technology.
8. Access to the expertise of others is needed in order for teachers to implement a cross-domain and interdisciplinary approach.