The overall driving force of the upper school science curriculum at Providence Academy is a sense of wonder-filled confidence that the universe is ordered and knowable and that by coming to understand its order one can become more intimately acquainted with its Divine Creator. “The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for the want of wonder.”
– G.K. Chesterton
SCIENCE
The high school science curriculum at Providence Academy consists of the three fundamental natural sciences (Biology, Chemistry, and Physics) and Anatomy & Physiology. All three of the natural science courses build upon the students’ previous knowledge of the scientific method and laboratory techniques, whereas Anatomy & Physiology makes use of the natural sciences to explain the material workings of the human body. In all four rhetoric level courses, a larger amount of independent scientific investigation and application is required than in the grammar and logic stage.
Courses and Central Texts
Physics (Science I)
Conceptual Physics, Pearson
Biology (Science II)
Exploring Creation with Biology, Wile and Durnell
Chemistry (Science III)
Chemistry, Prentice Hall
Anatomy & Physiology (Science IV)
Introduction to the Human Body: The Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology, Tortora and Derrickso