Science, S.TE.M. and Agriculture

As our curriculum grows year on year, we create new ways of incorporating STEM activities and exciting facets of science as part of general learning and not a separate subject. 

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In the S1 classes we have gone from learning some English integrated science for an hour week to having courses in Earth Science, Life Science and Physical Science. These courses use American Middle School textbooks that are aligned to nationwide Common Core State Standards. As these classes may be heavy on theory, we try to work in the fun experiments as often as possible to make the learning a little more hands on and relevant.

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To give students the opportunity for some hands on learning, our farm is the perfect place to see science at work and to learn how the changes we make affect the living things around us. Up until now we have been growing vegetables and learning how to get good harvests with the help of local community farmers. Joining us this year is Teacher Ayong. With his expertise in this area he will help us manage our permaculture base.

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For the future, we are looking at adding in some real world science exploration to this fun activity. In conjunction with our science lessons, we will be running basic research projects on crops while collecting data to analyze in class and discuss as we are learning. This will help us formulate questions for things we want to learn that we can add to our experimentation in the field. The field work, although a little boring at times, is a crucial part of the learning and scientific method of measuring results and drawing conclusions.

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Our middle school building has set aside a multipurpose class dedicated as a space to learn more about STEM, Science and Social Studies in which students are free to look at and use the equipment and displays. This helps students create more pertinent questions during science lessons which lead to interesting learning tangents that result in unexpected and fun learning adventures.