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Science (Grades 5–8)

The mission of the Science Department is to help students develop a working knowledge of the key concepts of science, technology, engineering, and math. In addition, students are taught how science works to solve problems.

We accomplish these goals by providing experiences where students can apply verbal and quantitative skills to describe natural phenomena. Using our 100-acre campus as a resource, our students work as scientists to develop a progressively more sophisticated understanding of science processes. Observational ability, quantitative skills, and analytical thinking are developed through classroom activities and assessments that require students to do more than memorize and regurgitate information.

Within a nurturing and vibrant learning environment and under the guidance of a highly qualified, multi-talented faculty, students are encouraged to think, to critically evaluate, to stretch their minds, and to gain the skills that they will need to live and study in a technologically sophisticated world. In short, they do science and thus become part of humanity's endeavor to learn about the natural world and our place in it.

Our Faculty

Emily McDermott

MS Science Instructor

302.235.6500

mcdermotte@sanfordschool.org
Jillian Wharton

MS Science Instructor

3022356500

whartonj@sanfordschool.org