Theme: This theme focuses on helping students use scientific inquiry to discover patterns, trends, structures and relationships that may be inferred from simple principles. These principles are related to the properties or interactions within and between systems.
Systems can be described and understood by analysis of the interaction of their components. Energy, forces and motion combine to change the physical features of Earth. The changes of the physical Earth and the species that have lived on Earth are found in the rock record. For species to continue, reproduction must be successful.
Physical Earth – Earth and Space Science / The Physical Setting
Forces and Motion – Physical Science / The Physical Setting
Species and Reproduction – Life Science / The Living Environment