Webster Elementary School teachers are collaborating with three parents to develop a new science curriculum at the school that includes hands-on activities and experiments. The parents, who work in the science field at UCLA and Pepperdine University, have been offering extra science instruction at the school over the past few years.
This year, with financial support from the PTA and a grant from a private foundation, each grade level is taking part in science units and lab activities with the Webster parents. The fifth-grade classes have been studying the water cycle, density of ocean water and ocean currents. Fourth-graders are studying the formation of crystals, while the second-grade students have been studying geology.