This course examines concepts/principles/laws related to school science, including the organization of living systems (cell focus), the organization of the human body (digestive system, respiratory system, circulatory system, excretory system, and regulatory system), ecology, pollution, and global warming, inheritance of traits and biotechnology, structure and function of plants and animals, motion and Newton‘s Laws of motion, energy, work, and simple machines including the skeletal-muscular system, photosynthesis, alternative energy, temperature, heat, and heat transfer, the laws of thermodynamics, including the thermoregulation system of living things, waves and sound including their use in the medical field, light and optical devices, electricity and magnetism, atoms, molecules, elements of compound solutions, additives, addictive and psychotropic substances, earth structure, disaster mitigation and response, universe (solar system, universe/cosmology). The assessment also includes potential misconceptions, efforts to overcome them, and alternative inquiries related to the concept/principle/law