This course is designed as an inquiry-based science content overview for Early Childhood Education. Students will develop and demonstrate a basic understanding of fundamental principles of life and earth sciences correlated to nine themes included in the GPS: characteristics of life, biodiversity and heredity, energy flow, interdependence of life, cell structure and function, earth systems, the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, and the biosphere.

Prerequisite: Students must have completed all area D courses with a grade of "C" or better and have completed their area A math requirement with a grade of "C" or better. An inquiry-based, integrated lecture and lab course for Early-Childhood Education majors in physical science. Topics to be investigated include physical and chemical properties of matter, energy, motion, simple machines, light, optics, electricity, and magnetism.