Science

Successful egg drop - students were challenged to design a helmet to protect an egg (aka a brain) from a concussion.

Navigators brainstorming how to keep their egg (aka "brain") safe from a concussion.

Mapmakers working on props for a video about an aquatic food chain.

At The Curiosity Crew, we take time for students to really dig into topics. While learning about methods of seed dispersal, we paused to make our own animals and tested their abilities to help plants with seed dispersal!

Navigators investing state of matter changes and how temperature is affecting during a state of matter change.

Navigators working on a lab to explore what happens to temperature when states of matter change.

Mapmakers working together to build a food chain.

Navigators making a model of a human hand to explore the relationship between the skeletal and muscular systems.

Navigators learning how to prepare microscope slides.

Student image from a Foldscope of red onion skin.

Navigators learning about the skeletal system

Navigators testing models of the human heart.

Navigators observing cell types with a microscope and recording their observations in their science notebook.

Navigators working on a model of their digestive system.

Mapmakers working on a review diorama of a lifecycle.

A mapmaker's successful seed sprouting as part of a conditions necessary for life experiment.

Green leaf under a microscope - image from a student.

Navigators learning about the structure and function of the digestive system.

Navigators working on a stop motion video project to explain Brownian motion and diffusion.

Mapmakers exploring the states of matter with oobleck.

Mapmakers exploring states of matter with dry ice.

Mapmakers exploring changing states of matter with dry ice.

Navigators exploring the periodic table and trends of the periodic table by playing a game!

Mapmakers exploring reversible and irreversible changes

Mapmakers testing the strength of magnet fields and what affects a magnetic field

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Engaging + Collaborative + Hands-On +

We are homeschooling parents too and we know the struggle to find high quality, secular science curricula that’s easy to implement at home and exciting for kids. We didn’t want our kids to just watch science videos. We wanted them to experience the labs and learn by doing. We dreamed of a class where students got the chance to experience all the messy experiments, have access to science materials that are hard to justify buying for a one-time experiences and to learn in a collaborative environment. When we couldn’t find it we decided to make this a cornerstone offering at our program.

Our classes provide a chance for students to dive deep into science content in a hands-on, engaging way guided by an expert science educator. Students enjoy real-time problem-solving with their peers. Classes cover a range of topics over all three trimesters and year to year, ensuring students are getting exposed to biology, chemistry, physics, and earth science and are prepared for whatever their next step is.

2024 - 2025 Topics & Themes

Mapmakers Cohort

1st through 3rd Grade

2024 - 2025 Themes and Topics

Fall Trimester: Life Science
- Living and Non-living
- Plant vs. Animal
- Life Cycles
- What is a species?
- Food chains, Energy flow and Adaptations
Winter Trimester: Nature of Matter
- Solids, Liquids, and Gases
- Air
- Pressure, Vacuums, and the Atmosphere
- Magnets and Magnetic Fields
Spring Trimester: Physical Science
- Concepts of Energy (Movement, Sounds, Kinetic and Potential
- Energy vs. Matter vs. Force

Navigators Cohort

4th through 6th Grade

2024 - 2025 Themes and Topics

Fall Trimester: Life Science
- Cells
- Tissues, Organs, and Body Systems
- Microscopes
Winter Trimester: Nature of Matter
- Molecular Motion (Brownian Motion, relationship to temperature and pressure)
- Atoms
- Elements and Compounds
Spring Trimester: Physical Science
- Science of Flight
- Gravity
- Levers, Pulleys, Gears, Inclined Planes, Hydraulics
- Momentum and Waves