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science is all around us, the underlying mechanisms of a flower unfolding, the sun warming one's neck, and growing old; science is introduced to the young children as an appreciation of the beauty of nature, its trees, branches, leaves, its rocks and minerals, and creatures of ground, sea, and air, and a look skyward into space, the sun, planet, and constellations, with building inquiry based on observation, comparison, and supposition; for middle school, observations, primary and secondary research, experimentation, application of the scientific method; disciplines of geology, ecology, botany, biology, anatomy, organic chemistry, physics of light, sound, simple machines, and electromagnetism, and physiology of systems such as digestion, circulation, skeletal, muscular, respiration, endocrine, and reproduction
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