Students explore scientific concepts through active inquiry, investigation, and analysis. They are encouraged to pose relevant questions and hypotheses that often guided the direction of their study.

Life, earth, and physical sciences are taught across the grades. Life sciences are usually taught as integrative part of a broader social studies unit, and students explore how people affect, and are affected by the plants, animals, and environments around them. Students being to develop an understanding research and are introduced to the Scientific Method.

Physical and earth sciences at SBS are taught through the Full Option Science System (FOSS). These units are based on the philosophy of learning at the Lawrence Hall of Science, and provide students with investigations that are developmentally appropriate and experience-based. These investigations teach students important scientific concepts, and prepare them for future exposure to increasingly complex and advanced scientific and technological concepts.