Highlights of a kindergarten student in the science lab includes:

• Use of scientific tools, thermometers, balance scales, rulers
• float and sink
• nature walks
• the sun and its heat and light
• magnetism
• plant and butterfly life cycle

Some highlights of 1st grade science class, including lab are:

• making predictions and observation
• habitats and seasonal changes
• classify plants and animals
• Animal adaptation
• the sun and the movement of the planets and stars
• sound and vibrations
• movement of objects relating to push and pull
• the human body organs
• nutrition and hygeine
• Natural resources

The second grade students have science (including lab) for 1 hour once a week. Curriculum highlights include:

• Data collection and observations
• Matter
• Solids, liquids, and gases and their properties
• Mixtures
• Practicing measurement using the appropriate tools for mass, length, temperature, volume.
• Properties of light
• Properties of magnets
• Weather collection and changes through the seasons.
• Animal and plant life cycles
• Habitats

The third grade students get science lab for 45 minutes once a week in addition to the science lessons in their classroom. Here are some of the labs the students may experience:

• Observing and recording data
• Kinetic and potential energy and energy transformations
• Inclined planes and cars with varied friction levels
• Simple machines activities
• Outdoor labs exploring local habitats
• STREAM project where students use ipads to take photos of evidence of seasonal changes in the OLGC habitat. Students create a collage including appreciation for God's creation.
• Food web
• Bird beak adaptations
• Components of soil and the layers of soil
• Effects of human activity on the quality of the environment
• Varied ecosystems
• Animal migration
• Human body - Digestion process

The 4th grade students come to the science lab once a week for 45 minutes. Some of the highlights of the labs they will experience include:

• Make observations and record data
• Weather exploration including clouds, using a thermometer, tracking changes in weather
• Create and test an anemometer to test wind speed on the campus
• Phases of the moon and craters of the moon
• Pocket solar system to learn about the relative distance of planets to the sun
• Magnetism, electricity, circuits
• Ocean currents
• Animal adaptation to salinity of the ocean
• Characteristics of the ocean floor
• Human influence on the ocean, including a STEM project designing their own way to clean up a spill in the ocean.
• Lab relating to the cardiovascular system including, diameter of arteries affects rate of flow
• Use microscopes to compare human blood cells to frog blood cells
• Model of a lung activity
• Voluntary and involuntary muscles
• Five senses and the nervous system
• Plant and flower anatomy

The fifth grade students come to the science lab once a week for 45 minutes in addition to their science classroom lessons. Here are some of highlights of the labs:

• Observing and recording data
• Using tools of the lab
• Exploring the engineering design process through creating a product for a particular user
• Create a model of a sedimentary rock
• Stations exploring classifying rocks
• Explore chemical and physical weathering
• Build a tower using different materials to withstand an earthquake
• Water changes the landscape
• Fossils and carbon dating
• Using microscopes to observe plant and animal cells
• Dissect an owl pellet to observe vertebrates
• Light reflection and refraction
• Observe vascualr and non-vascular plants