1. SYSTEMS: The student knows and applies scientific concepts and principles to understand systems.
To meet this standard, the student will:

1.1. Properties: Understand how properties are used to identify, describe, and categorize substances, materials, and objects and how characteristics are used to categorize living things.
1.2. Structures: Understand how the components, structures, and organizations of systems and the interconnections within and among them describe systems.
1.3. Changes: Understand how interactions within and among systems cause changes in matter and energy.

2. INQUIRY: The student knows and applies the skills, and processes, and nature of scientific inquiry.
To meet this standard, the student will:

2.1. Investigate Systems: Develop the knowledge and skills necessary to do scientific inquiry.
2.2 Nature of Science: Understand the nature of scientific inquiry.

3. DESIGN: The student knows and applies the design process to develop solutions to human problems in societal contexts.
To meet this standard, the student will:

3.1 Design Solutions: Apply design processes to develop solutions to human problems or meet challenges using the knowledge and skills of science and technology.
3.2. Science, Technology, & Society: Know that science and technology are human endeavors, interrelated to each other, to society, and to the workplace.