We work collaboratively with teachers on an ongoing basis to make the implementation of Sangari in their classroom seamless throughout the year. Teachers know they can count on us whenever they need help.
What we do
The Sangari Experience
Sangari offers the world’s leading investigation-centered integrated science program and currently serves over 500,000 students in North and South America.
Our curriculum is deliberately structured to take advantage of children’s natural curiosity. Instead of a traditional approach that relies on lectures and textbooks and reinforces an artificial division among biology, physics, and chemistry, Sangari Active Science has students spend their time doing interdisciplinary investigations that are organized into 20 modular units.
Within each module, students conduct a number of experiments, each lasting from a few days to a few weeks: asking questions, debating answers, proving and disproving hypotheses, writing up conclusions in their science journals, and regularly showing what they know.
The Research Says …
Hands-on learning produces results superior to the more traditional instruction that relies on textbooks, teacher lectures, and rote learning of factoids. Students who have the chance to learn by doing learn more, retain more, gain confidence in their ability to do science and solve problems, and improve their language reading and writing skills as well.
- A meta-analysis of 81 research studies found that primary grade children exposed to hands-on science instruction displayed a positive effect size of 1.4 standard deviations in achievement. Noteworthy were the achievement gains by students of teachers who had in-service training on the hands-on curricula. (Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1990)
- Inquiry-based instructional strategies averaged 13 percentile points higher in achievement measures over textbook-lecture modes of instruction, according to 140 published comparisons of traditional middle and high school teaching and inquiry-oriented approaches. (“Strategies for Teaching Science: What Works?” The Clearing House, July/August 1990)
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Higher science achievement is related to the emphasis placed on experiments and practical investigations. (Third International Mathematics and Science Study)