All creation sings Your praise.

In the garden.

God has not made a new thing since the sixth day. He created everything and instructed it to reproduce after its own kind, a perfect system of life and regeneration. If you want to understand something, you could study it, take it apart, perform tests, and still not know much about it. Or, you can ask the creator of that thing to tell you everything about it. Our approach to science, biological, physical, and chemical, is to look to the Creator. Below, you will find an outline formed by the Board of Directors for a progression though the study of science. Keep in mind that The ARC does not prescribe to traditional grade levels, but they are listed for ease of comparison.

Kindergarten

  • Observe, measure, and predict properties of materials

  • Understanding weather and seasons

  • Plants and animals that inhabit the Earth

  • Earth is composed of land, air, and water

  • How things work

  • Investigations and experiments

First Grade

  • Materials can be solids, liquids, and gases

  • Materials can change from when they are mixed

  • Plants and animals inhabit different environments

  • Food chain ecosystems

  • How things work

  • Investigations and experiments

Second Grade

  • Motion of objects

  • Life cycles of plants and animals

  • Materials the Earth is made of and natural resources

  • Conservation

  • How things work

  • Investigations and experiments

Third Grade

  • The world’s oceans

  • Plants and animals that inhabit the oceans

  • Effects of human involvement with the oceans

  • Oceanography: the study of the ocean

  • Investigations and experiments

Fourth Grade

  • Electricity and magnetism of the Earth

  • Organisms need energy to and matter to live and grow

  • Properties of rocks and minerals

  • Fossils

  • Investigations and experiments

Fifth Grade

  • Types of matter

  • Plant and animal anatomy and structures

  • Movement of water in oceans and lands

  • Energy from the sun

  • The Solar System

  • Investigations and experiments

Sixth Grade

  • Plate tectonics and Earth structure

  • Topography of the Earth’s surface

  • Heat (Thermal Energy)

  • Ecology

  • How energy and matter differ in amounts and use

  • Improve independent investigative and research skills

Seventh Grade

  • Cell biology

  • Genetics and how plants and animals evolve

  • Living systems of plants, animals, and people

  • Underlying biological structures and functions

  • Improve independent investigative and research skills

Eighth Grade

  • Motion, forces, and the structure of matter

  • Earth in the Solar System, study of stars and galaxies

  • Chemical reactions

  • Chemistry of living systems

  • The Periodic Table

  • Density and buoyancy

  • Improve independent investigative and research skills

Ninth Grade

  • Physics of motion and forces

  • Conservation of energy and momentum

  • Heat and thermodynamics

  • Waves

  • Electric and magnetic phenomena

  • Spacetime

  • Improve independent investigative and research skills

Tenth Grade

  • Atomic and molecular structure

  • Chemical Bonds

  • Conservation of mass and stoichiometry

  • Gases and their properties

  • Acids and bases

  • Solutions

  • Chemical Thermodynamics

  • Reaction rates

  • Chemical Equilibrium

  • Organic and Biochemistry

  • Nuclear processes

  • Improve independent investigative and research skills

Eleventh Grade (Physiology)

  • Cell biology

  • Genetics

  • Ecology

  • Evolution

  • Physiology

  • Improve independent investigative and research skills

Twelfth Grade

  • Earth’s place in the universe

  • Dynamic Earth Processes

  • Energy in the Earth

  • Biogeochemical cycles

  • Structure and composition of the atmosphere

  • Improve independent investigative and research skills