The fifth grade science course is a foundations class designed to provide students with a basic knowledge of fundamental concepts in life, earth, and physical science.  Emphasis is placed on learning through inquiry and using the scientific investigations and the engineering design process. 

Topics include:  scientific process, the metric system, matter and energy, nutrition, ecology, astronomy, and weather

In sixth grade, students explore topics in life science.  Students think like scientists to construct meaning about the living world around them.  

Topics include: plants, cells, kingdoms of life, genetics, and the human body