Fundamental School Curriculum, Third Cycle: Experimental Sciences, Year 8

This volume is one of ten disciplinary volumes of the third-cycle curriculum of the fundamental school, issued by the Ministry of National Education through the Institut Pédagogique National for the 1989-1990 school year. It opens with a preamble and with the ends and general objectives of Haitian education, the objectives and principles of the third cycle, and the study plan of the fundamental school with its weekly time allocation. It then gives the program for the discipline: an introduction, the general objectives, the framework program, the detailed operational program, a progression grid and a selective bibliography of school textbooks.

The experimental sciences program is allotted three hours a week over 30 school weeks. It aims to reinforce knowledge already acquired, sharpen observation and awaken scientific thinking, and it differs from traditional secondary teaching by a participatory approach, by themes and sub-themes that tie the stages of learning together, and by activities drawn from the learner's environment. The program was prepared by a special commission organized in sub-commissions by discipline, with technical support from the Haiti/UNDP/UNESCO education project.