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Science Process Skills. Observation. Noting the properties of objects and situations using the five senses… Seeing Hearing Touching Smelling Tasting. Classifying. Relating objects and events according to their attributes which may involve classifying… Places Objects Ideas Events.
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Observation • Noting the properties of objects andsituations using the five senses… • Seeing • Hearing • Touching • Smelling • Tasting
Classifying • Relating objects and events accordingto their attributes which may involve classifying… • Places • Objects • Ideas • Events
Measuring • Expressing the amount of an object inquantitative terms, or comparing anobject to a standard… • Length in Meters • Volume in Liters • Mass in Grams • Force in Newtons • Temperature in Degrees Celsius
Communicating • Process of describing, recording,and reporting experimentalprocedures and results to others… • Oral, written, or mathematical • Organizes ideas using appropriatevocabulary, graphs, other visualrepresentations, and mathematicalequations.
Inferring, Predicting, Interpreting • Inferring: Giving an explanation for aparticular object or event • Predicting: Forecasting a futureoccurrence based on pastobservations or the extension of data • Interpreting: Arriving at explanations,inferences, or hypotheses from datathat has been placed in a data table orgraph
Experimenting • Testing a hypothesis through themanipulation and control ofindependent variables and noting theeffects on a dependent variable • Interpreting and presenting results inthe form of a report that others canfollow to replicate the experiment • Integrated process skill
Inquiry • Skills necessary to carry out theprocess of scientific or systematicthinking • Includes the opportunity to… • Ask a question • Formulate a procedure • Gather empirical data • Draw conclusions based on data