Knowledge of the impacts and limitations of information systems is essential to its effective and ethical use. Science Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles and theories pertaining to the interactions and interdependency between physical settings and the living environment. Students will be able to recognize the evolution of scientific thought. The Earth and celestial phenomena can be described by essential ideas about the composition and structure of the universe and the Earth s place in it. Physical Science Matter is made up of materials whose structure and properties determine the observable characteristics of matter and its interactions.
Energy exists in many forms, and is conserved during transformation from one form to another.
Motion can be understood by the principles of energy. There are similarities and differences among living things and between living and nonliving things. Organisms inherit genetic information in a variety of ways that result in continuity of biological characteristics from one generation to the next. The continuity of life is sustained through reproduction and development. Individual organisms may adapt to a changing environment.