SCIENCE
department description
The Science department’s mission is to create and support a rigorous and relevant, inquiry-based JK-12 Science and Engineering curriculum that engages all students, teaches students how to think and work as scientists and engineers, is culturally responsive, and develops deep understanding of key scientific concepts that will have real world connections throughout their lives. The department develops curriculum and assessments, provides professional learning for JK-12 teachers, purchases and distributes materials, and works with other departments to integrate Science and Engineering with other areas of the curriculum.
The Science Department’s mission is to create and support a rigorous and relevant, inquiry-based JK-12 Science and Engineering curriculum that engages all students, teaches students how to think and work as scientists and engineers, is culturally responsive, and develops deep understanding of key scientific concepts that will have real world connections throughout their lives.
The department develops curriculum and assessments, provides professional learning for JK-12 teachers, purchases and distributes materials, and works with other departments to integrate Science and Engineering with other areas of the curriculum.
Strategic Goals
- Expand teacher capacity to embed the use of instructional routines and tools that allow students to make sense of and engage in productive struggle into the JK-8 Science curriculum.
- Build a common JK-12 understanding of the continuum of Science & Engineering Practice learning and look at student work to calibrate a common rubric.
- Collaborate with the ELA, Social Studies/History and Math Departments to integrate the curriculum across content areas.
- Build equitable outdoor learning into the Science curriculum and tighten the connections between the CPS science curriculum and CitySprouts.