99.999% of science doesn’t fit under a microscope.
We present science as a way to answer children’s questions about what they observe around them: in the classroom, on campus, in the neighborhood, and on field trips. Every parent knows what keen observers and persistent interrogators children are regarding the world they live in. How does a seed turn into a plant? Why does bread rise? How do fish know where to go when they swim in a school? We ask children to consider who would know and how they might find out. From there, your child will learn to devise experiments, take measurements, use research tools, and look for answers. As a group, we discuss what was learned and, equally important, what is still unknown. At CCS, children constantly apply these skills in other areas of study so as to understand that science is not confined to the lab, but is an invaluable tool that will serve them no matter where they go in life.
Similarly, we teach mathematics not as a rote set of algorithms, but as integral to discovery. Practical math is demonstrated inside and outside the classrooms often as possible during the day, whether it be in cooking, measuring, woodworking, block-building, or graph-making, . We point out the connection these activities have with mathematics to demonstrate that the discipline is not an abstract process but very much a part of the world around us.