Subchapter C. High School Chapter 112. Implementation of Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science, High School. Integrated Physics and Chemistry. Students shall be awarded one credit for successful completion of this course. This course is recommended for students in Grades 9 or 10.
Science is a way of learning about the natural world.
Students should know how science has built a vast body of changing and increasing knowledge described by physical, mathematical, and conceptual models, and also should know that science may not answer all questions. A system is a collection of cycles, structures, and processes that interact. Students should understand a whole in terms of its components and how these components relate to each other and to the whole. All systems have basic properties that can be described in terms of space, time, energy, and matter. Change and constancy occur in systems and can be observed and measured as patterns.