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Some Students’ Answers to: What is Science? ( 4 th grade )

Explore the wonders of science through experimentation, observation, and general theories in this engaging and informative book.

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Some Students’ Answers to: What is Science? ( 4 th grade )

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  1. Some Students’ Answers to: What is Science?(4th grade) Listening and boring Books about stuff you never heard of Learning about where you live It’s about space and stars Growing things Something we don’t have enough of Doing experiments Looking and listening Finding out From “Elementary School Science and How to Teach It”, 7th Edition By Glenn Blough & Julius Schwartz CBS College Publishing, 1984

  2. What I think Science is Science is a way of knowing. It employs techniques that have been found to be effective in generating reliable knowledge about the natural world. It uses experimentation and observation to arrive at general theories, which are provisional and subject to modification.

  3. Interaction of Theory & Experiment Induction (generalization) “Ockham’s Razor” Theory Experiment Reproducible? Deduction (prediction) Falsifiable?

  4. The Electromagnetic Spectrum – Transparency of the Earth’s Atmosphere

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