Students explore science, the arts, mathematics, and social studies. They compare ways of learning, examine evidence and interpretation, and discuss how different fields help us understand the world.
Practice: Vocabulary in context, idioms, reading comprehension, role-play, and reasoned discussion.
Vocabulary: daunting, pandemic, agriculture, method, superstition, revolution.
Language practice: Explain how evidence supports an idea, compare learning approaches, and distinguish factual claims from myths.
Idioms & expressions: back to the drawing board, ahead of one’s time, a lightbulb moment, reinvent the wheel, trial and error, push the boundaries.
Reading & speaking: Explore science’s history and major discoveries; discuss experimentation, mistakes, accidental breakthroughs, and scientific questions, then reason through a fact-or-fiction activity.