Torchlight takes a distinctively secular approach with Humanist underpinnings. Torchlight supports the Golden Rule, kindness, exploration, questioning, and scientific thinking: a worldly approach full of logic, equality, and empathy. A list of alternate and extra materials provides flexibility, allowing you to mold the learning experience to the learner and facilitate the expansion of topics without the added pressure to get it all in. Torchlight uses a model that allows the adult to learn alongside the child, helping guide them, teaching them to find answers, and asking quality questions.
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Scientific Connections through Inquiry teaches secular, interdisciplinary science in a way that allows children to understand advanced topics deeply. SCI asks the big questions and enables the student to connect science to the world around them. It recognizes that science is inherently fascinating and uses hands-on exploration to deepen understanding and lead to discoveries rather than showpieces. We dig in, discuss, make, observe, move our bodies, watch, and perform simple, truly effective demonstrations.