The student uses critical thinking and scientific problem solving to make informed decisions. The student knows how to use a variety of tools and methods to conduct science inquiry. The student knows that there is a relationship between force and motion. The student knows that substances have physical and chemical properties. The student knows the relationship between structure and function in living systems.
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.