Sixth graders take on new academic challenges and social experiences, such as independent research, participation on sports teams, and service opportunities. There is a grounding in the students’ physical development, emerging powers of conceptual thinking, and an interest in cause and effect in their learning.
The sixth grade student experiences new awakening towards conceptual thought. This new found awareness is supported and nurtured through a curriculum that aims to understand the laws of the universe and cause and effect. The bridge between mythology and history is crossed as students study the rise and fall of the Roman empire, the birth of Jesus and Mohammed, and the Middle Ages. As students contend with the onset of adolescence, their science studies bring a sense of order to a sometimes chaotic world. Astronomy, geology, physics, and geometry introduce the students to the laws of the universe, and business math marries the conceptual with the practical.