Science

The Northfield Science Department is where students come to examine more closely the complex workings of the natural world, and to renew their wonder at God’s wisdom. The better we understand the principles of the universe around us, the more we must respect God’s vision. Science classes currently offered to upperclassmen include Biology, Advanced Biology, Chemistry, and Advanced Chemistry.

In addition to these studies, the Science Department is involved in the Egg Drop Experiment on the campus of Wichita State University, in which the Grammar School II class undertakes the task of creating devices that are meant to protect an egg from breaking when the egg has been dropped from great height, such as Cessna stadium. A yearly field trip has included such locations as a fishery, a dissection lab at a college, a nuclear power plant, the Cosmosphere, and the touring Human Body Exhibit at Exploration Place. Our students have built an outdoor oven, a pedal-powered four-passenger car, a stained glass mural, and a trebuchet. Honors classes oversee projects like building a saltwater fish tank, a terrestrial aquarium with lizards, and have even developed a reverse osmosis system to prepare fresh water for drinking, as well as water for the fish tank.

Jim Schmidt

Mr. Schmidt teaches Capstone Chemistry. 

Adrienne Harmon

Mrs. Harmon, in addition to teaching art and a grammar tutorial, teaches non-math chemistry.

David Zurita

Mr. Zurita teaches biology.