Wednesday, January 12, 2011

ScIEnCe = ASK


Science = Attitudes + Skills + Knowledge (ASK)


Knowledge @ Product

(Cognitive Domain)



 
      Science

       Attitudes (Affective Domain)                   Skills @ Process

                                                                  

Science as a body of knowledge (Product)

The body of knowledge produced from scientific disciplines represents the creative products of human invention that have occurred over centuries. The enormous collection of ideas pertaining to the natural and physical world is organized into astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, and physics and so on. The facts, concepts, principles, laws, hypotheses, theories, and models from the content of science. 


Science Is a Process (Skills)






Science Process Skills
  Manipulative skills
Observing
Using and handling science apparatus
Classifying
Maintaining science apparatus correctly and safety
Measuring and using numbers
Cleaning science apparatus correctly
Making inferences
Handling specimen correctly and carefully
Predicting
Sketch specimen  and science apparatus
communicating




Sciences involves attitudes

As students learn in science, they should be encouraged to develop the attitudes on which scientific investigation depends. These attitudes include curiosity, honesty in the recording and validation of data, flexibility, persistence, critical-mindedness, open-mindedness, willingness to suspend judgment, willingness to tolerate uncertainty, and an acceptance of the provisional nature of scientific explanation.

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