First Semester: Amazing Air, Weather-Watching, Sunshine and Shadows. This year, the students will begin to gain a basic understanding of God’s world through a detailed analysis of earth sciences. The first semester introduces students to air, and its fascinating properties by providing hands-on experiments. Weather-watching is the next science topic that they will explore using handmade weather tools. They will also explore rainbows, thunderstorms, and snowflakes. The semester ends with a look at shadows and ends with a full-fledged original performance in a shadow theater.
Second Semester: Finding the Moon, Sun and Earth and Exploring Soil. Students will compare the daytime and nighttime skies. Through direct observations and modeling exercises, they will discover that the Earth’s nearest neighbor in space is far more interesting than any storybook Moon. The students will also take to the schoolyard with trowels in hand and explore soil components, weathering and erosion, minerals and nutrients, and more. Once they understand what soil is, they find out how it is made and observe how earthworms mix and enrich the soil.
- Teacher: Alida Luck
- Teacher: Kim Vander Hill