Each year, students participate in PhUn (Physiological Understanding) Week, a program developed in conjunction with the American Physiological Society and professors in the Biological Sciences department at Sacramento State University, engages our students in an exciting and active exploration of human body systems. In 5th grade, Country Day students travel to Sac State to a lab using the same facilities that research scientists use.
The science program has three key areas of focus:
- To teach the scientific method and reinforce it across the years
- To teach students how to design an experiment and to problem solve if their design isn’t working
- To discuss that failure isn’t necessarily a bad thing and how some of the greatest scientific discoveries have come from experiments that technically failed their primary objective
Each year, students participate in PhUn (Physiological
Understanding) Week, a program developed in conjunction with the
American Physiological Society and professors in the Biological
Sciences department at Sacramento State University, engages our
students in an exciting and active exploration of human body
systems. In 5th grade, Country Day students travel to Sac
State to a lab using the same facilities that research scientists
use.
The science program has three key areas of focus:
- To teach the scientific method and reinforce it across the
years
- To teach students how to design an experiment and to problem
solve if their design isn’t working
- To discuss that failure isn’t necessarily a bad thing and how
some of the greatest scientific discoveries have come from
experiments that technically failed their primary objective
