The Lower School science curriculum focuses on studies of the environment and the physical world. At every step, the aim is for students to develop the necessary tools and skills for scientific inquiry.

What scientific investigation means to a three-year-old and to a ten-year-old is quite different, but we encourage all students to immerse themselves in opportunities to question and to find answers in the environment. As students progress through grades, they are exposed to connected concepts such as observing, collecting, classifying, predicting, researching, recording, and measuring. Every child learns the critical skills to perform experiments using the scientific method. They leave for Middle School with that essential foundation of skills and tools, having experienced in-depth studies on topics including the Hudson River, New York's trees and birds, simple machines, and the plant cycle, to name a few.