The Blake science program is driven by the School's overall mission in four areas:
- lifelong learning:
- Understanding the natural world
- Critical thinking skills and cognitive development
- responsible world citizenship:
- Understanding global issues from a scientific perspective (Energy, Environment, Health)
- service:
- Understanding local issues from a scientific perspective (Environmental monitoring such as water quality)
- preparation for college:
- Preparation of future scientists and engineers through a strong advanced placement (AP) program and opportunities for research.
Overall, the Blake Science Program strives to provide students with a solid foundation in scientific thought, evidence-based reasoning and experimental methods to help students navigate through the important issues facing our world today. There are three key topics areas and four unifying themes that spiral throughout our curriculum from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The three key topic areas are Health (organisms, human body, bio-medical issues), Environment (biology, earth science, chemistry) and Energy (earth science, physics). The four unifying themes that guide our curricular choices are Change and Constancy, Models, Systems and Scale. In general, we believe in teaching science as a process of inquiry and we encourage our students to formulate experimental questions and to pursue increasingly independent work as they move up through the grades.
Read about Blake's science program in:
Science at Blake: Out of the Textbook and Into the Creek, Feature, Bulletin, July 2010
To learn more, please e-mail Interim PreK-12 Department Chair for
Science Natalie Rasmussen.
Lower School Science Program Team
Perry Andrews
Laura Gilmer
Samara Estroff
Zambie Franchot
Kathryn Kaatz
Martha Long
Jackie Robie
Middle School
Bruce Jones
Maelene Krig
Lynne Macziewski
Natalie Rasmussen
Richard Sabaka
Kelli Winkler
Upper School
Jim Arnold
Steve Kaback
Paul Menge
Chris Mitchell
Karen Phillips
Christian Prouty
Jeff Trinh
Dan Trockman
Jen Vance
Deb Weiss
Janet Williams
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