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SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS. By Sabrina Fiorini & Alexandra Bosch. There are three dimensions of science that are important when understanding science process skills:. First Dimension includes: Content of Science Basic concepts Our scientific knowledge. Second Dimension of Science.
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SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS By Sabrina Fiorini & Alexandra Bosch
There are three dimensions of science that are important when understanding science process skills: First Dimension includes: • Content of Science • Basic concepts • Our scientific knowledge
Second Dimension of Science Process of Doing Science: • Ask questions • Used in our daily lives • Provides skills for the future • Used in every area of life
Third Dimension of Science Science Attitudes: • Curiosity • Imaginative • Enthusiastic about questions • Enthusiastic about solving problems
Teaching Respect for Science Methods and Values: • Seeking to answer questions • Using evidence • Realizing importance of rechecking data • Understanding science theories can change • Understanding science knowledge can change
Six Basic Process Skills: • Observation • Communication • Classification • Measurement • Inference • Prediction
Six Basic Process Skills • Are integrated together • Are also important individually • Can be in logical order • Observation and communication (Younger Students) • Inference and Predication (Older Students)
Observation Fundamental science process skills Use of the five senses: Seeing Hearing Touching Smelling Tasting
Classification Classify: • Places • Objects • Ideals • Events Generate: • Lists • Tables • Charts
Measurement Such as: • Length in meters • Volume in Liters • Mass in grams • Force in Newton's • Temperature in degrees Celsius
Communication May include: • Oral • Written • Mathematical • Organizing Ideas using: • Visual representations • Appropriate vocabulary • Mathematical equations
Inference Explanations or interpretations Follows an observation Differs from an observation Can be modified Are continuously being constructed
Predicting • Making an educated guess • Forecasting future observations • Based on observation • Based on inferences • Correct predictions • Provide confidence in the inference
Experiment • Testing a Hypothesis • Manipulation and control of independent variables. • Effects on dependant variables • Interpret and present results • Integrate process skills • Report
Inquiry Includes: • Asking questions • Formulating a procedure • Gathering empirical data • Drawing conclusions based on data • Carries out scientific thinking
Examples of Science Process Activities • Shaking a sealed can (Grades 1-2) • Circuit game (Grade 3) • Dice-in-a-box (Grade 4) • Pattern experiments (Grades 5-8) • Build your own lava lamp
Integrated Science Process Skills • Formulating hypotheses • Identifying variables • Defining variables operationally • Describing relationships between variables • Designing investigation • Experimenting
Integrated Science Process Skills Continued… • Acquiring data • Organizing data in tables and graphs • Analyzing investigations and their data • Understanding cause and effect relationships • Formulating models
LAB SAFETY!!! • Distinguish “safe” vs. “unsafe” behaviors • Identify safety symbols • Evaluate situations • Identify the proper techniques • Handel lab emergencies • Use appropriate lab equipment
Bibliography • Lancour, K. (n.d.). Training Guide . Retrieved March 30, 2009, from http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/products/sci_olympiad/pslsl_training_hammond.pdf • Science Process Skills: Classifying. (n.d.). Retrieved March 30, 2009, from http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~adams001/ProcessSkills.htm • Teaching The Science Process Skills. (2007, June 12). Retrieved March 30, 2009, from http://www.longwood.edu/cleanva
