Science
Students in Westwood Public Schools engage in an inquiry-based approach to science: they ask good questions, and the systematic pursuit of answers leads them to more questions.
Students work in teams to observe and analyze, design and refine, and they use a wide array of technologies and tools to support their creations and investigations. In the process, students relate their understandings to occurrences in the natural and human-impacted world and apply their learning to real-world problem solving.
Students discover and draw on the connections among the sciences as well as the connections between science and other disciplines. In addition to learning science concepts, they learn to think, listen, read, write and speak like scientists.
Most importantly, students enjoy exploring their world and the universe through science. They follow the trail of their curiosity as they investigate questions and problems that matter both locally and globally.
Earth and Space Science
- Analyze data on regional weather patterns
- Explore regional climate types
- Engage in design challenges to reduce damage on structures caused by weather
Life Science
- Organisms and life cycles
- Heredity of traits inplants and animals
- Differentiation of characteristics between heredity and environmental interaction
- Learning about changes over time through the study of fossils
- Explore connections between animal and plant adaptations in relation to environment
- The impact of changed habitat on the life of a species, perpetuation of animal and plant species
Physical Science
- Explore the effect of forces on objects
- Magnetism and gravity
- Application of magnets in the designed world
Engineering Design
- Design a solution to solve a specific problem
- Generate multiple solutions to a problem
- Use informational resources to design solutions to a problem
