The student text is filled with answers to puzzling questions about why things happen and how things work. But this text does more than answer questions, it is intended to stimulate new questions that will cause students to expand their knowledge. The text takes students inside an atom, lets them 'see' what happens in solids, liquids, and gases; helps them discover the forces that make things move or keep things from moving; and will show students forms of matter that scientists are just beginning to understand.

In this text, students will read about many scientists' observations. Sometimes they will be asked to make their own observations. When possible, what the Bible says about the topic will be presented. The contents of the Student Text are divided into 6 units of study, listed as follows:

1. Philosophy of Science
2. Description of Matter
3. Atomic Theory and Structure
4. Chemical Applications
5. Physics in Action
6. Wave and Particle Motion

The following chapter topics are covered:

1. Science and the Christian
2. The Scientific Method
3. The Measurement of Matter
4. The Properties of Matter
5. The Classification of Matter
6. Models of Atoms
7. The Periodic Table of Elements
8. Forces Between Atoms
9. Chemical Reactions
10. Solutions
11. Acids, Bases, and Salts
12. Energy and Momentum
13. Mechanics: Matter in Motion
14. Work and Machines
15. Fluid Mechanics
16. Heat and Temperature
17. Electricity
18. Magnetism
19. Sound Waves
20. The Electromagnetic Spectrum

There is also an Appendix, Glossary, and Index at the back of the student book.