Science

Jeffco science classrooms engage students in relevant phenomena-based and collaborative learning experiences facilitated by teachers who value collective sense-making, so that all students graduate science literate and empowered to empowered to critically analyze the world around them.

IB aims include:

• Understand and appreciate science and its implications.
• Consider science as a human endeavor with benefits and limitations.
• Cultivate analytical, inquiring and flexible minds that pose questions, solve problems, construct explanations and judge arguments.
• Develop skills to design and perform investigations, evaluate evidence and reach conclusions.
• Build an awareness of the need to effectively collaborate and communicate.
• Apply language skills and knowledge in a variety of real-life contexts.
• Develop sensitivity toward the living and non-living environments.
• Reflect on learning experiences and make informed choices.