Science at Decatur aims to be hands on and engaging. We use the
Amplify Science
curriculum that is aligned to the new Next Generation Science Standards
(NGSS). The new standards ask students to be able to engage in science
and engineering practices like design, building, and observation. It
asks them to understand crosscutting concepts like cause and effect and
energy and matter and how they work across all the domains in science.
It also asks students to understand key concepts in the core domains;
physical sciences; the
life sciences Opens a New Window; the
earth and space sciences Opens a New Window; and
engineering, technology and applications of science Opens a New Window.