Oaklawn
Visual & Performing Arts Magnet School
Science
In addition to the hands on experiences in the classrooms, Oaklawn Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School's outdoor classrooms provide supplementary experiences:
1.Environmental
and Ecosystem Pond Area
This area is equipped with
a pond and habitats for birds, squirrels, turtles, fish and other creatures
conducive for this environment.
2. Green and
Growing Garden Area
This area provides
stations for students to plant and design gardens and produce vegetation in the
greenhouse.
Students in these outdoor classrooms investigate the environments of the natural world and formulate conclusions for its existence.
Kindergarten
Science concepts and themes are integrated into all areas of the curriculum. The
approach to each of these will be investigative and experimental. Observations
will be described and recorded.
First Grade
Examine the techniques of
scientific inquiry and utilize the scientific method. Exploration and
investigation through communication and simple equipment. Introduction of
physical, life, earth, and space systems through observation, instruction, and
experimentation.
Second Grade
Learn aspects of life, earth
and physical science. Identify living and non-living science. Understand the
life cycles, needs, habitats, and uses of plants and animals. Determine good
health choices, identify body systems, and distinguish physical characteristics.
Recognize concepts, types, and characteristics of weather using seasonal changes
and weather instruments. Investigate the earth's natural resources and the solar
system.
Third Grade
Study the life, physical, and
earth sciences. Observations and explorations in the three science areas will
include plant and animal life, simple machines, measurement, sound, light, the
earth's resources, and weather.
Fourth Grade
Earth, life, physical, and
human sciences are studied as part of an interrelated program of hands-on
projects and visiting programs in order to relate science to the world around
the student. Scientific method will be applied as students explore the area of
the solar systems, living things, simple machines, and systems of the body and
how they affect their environment.
Fifth Grade
Learn about the structure and
function in animals and plants, chemistry, water resources, and the scientific
method. Practice the skill of observation, make, experiment and test a hypothesis and predictions,
conduct repeated trials with controlled variables, accurately recording results,
and drawing appropriate conclusions for those results.