Where Faith and Reason Meet
The Faith and Reason Series brings hands-on middle school science investigations together with the Catholic intellectual tradition.
What is the Faith and Reason Series?
Faith and Reason is a middle school science series that unites hands-on scientific investigation with the Catholic intellectual tradition. Students explore biology, cognition, and the human person through laboratory experiments, discussion, and reflection.
The Three Foundations of Faith and Reason
Scientific Investigation
Students conduct real laboratory investigations in biology and life science, learning to observe carefully, ask questions, and understand how scientific discovery reveals the structure and development of living systems.
The Human Person
Through experiments and discussion, students explore the biology and cognition of the human person as an integrated whole, discovering how the brain supports perception, memory, learning, and understanding.
Faith and Reason
Scientific exploration is integrated with the Catholic intellectual tradition, encouraging students to reflect on human dignity and consider how scientific knowledge and faith together illuminate the meaning of the human person.
The First Three Units in the Faith and Reason Series
The series begins with Human Prenatal Development, now available for classroom use. Additional units will follow.
Available Now
Human Prenatal Development
Students investigate the biology of prenatal human development through hands-on laboratory experiments, scientific observation, and reflection on the dignity of the developing human person.
Coming Soon
Human Cognition
Students explore the human brain and the science of learning, memory, perception, and executive function through experiments that reveal how the human mind receives, processes, and uses information.
Coming Soon
Homo Sapiens
Students examine the biological and anthropological distinctiveness of human beings, asking what science reveals about human origins, human uniqueness, and the meaning of being human.
Developed by a Scientist and Classroom Educator
The Faith and Reason Series was developed by Keith Verner, PhD (Biochemistry, Cornell University), founder of LabLearner and creator of hands-on science curriculum used by schools across the United States.
Drawing on both scientific research and decades of classroom experience, the program was designed to help middle school students investigate scientific questions through experimentation, discussion, and reflection.
The series reflects years of work helping students understand science through direct investigation while encouraging thoughtful reflection on the human person.
