Scientific Explorations

Scientific Explorations is a series of exploratory, stimulating and demanding courses tackling the vast area of science from first principles.

Students will be challenged with questions including: What is science and how is it different from other branches of learning? How does science contribute to other sources of knowledge? What is the scientific method? What is a scientist and can I be one? What have scientists done in the past and what do they do now? What are the experiments that have changed humanity? What are the relationships between science and technology, science and philosophy, science and mathematics, science and religion, science and culture, science and commerce? How will science influence human behaviour in the future?

Each semester will be divided into three different units exploring a specific scientific concept, and grounded in a diverse set of activities. Students will read seminal texts from the greatest thinkers and practitioners; they will study the greatest experiments; they will design and conduct their own scientific investigations; they will reflect on their explorations in essay writing and discussion; and they will become ready for future scientific endeavours through an immersion in the qualities and disciplines of scientific thinking.

 Scientific Explorations is available for middle school students from 2017-18.