Unit 1: Intro to Science
What do Scientist and Engineers do? (NGSS Practices)
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BASIC Science Process Skills
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INTEGRATED Science Process Skills
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- Acquisitive: skills and abilities of gathering information
- Listening—being attentive, alert, questioning
- Observing—being accurate, alert, systematic
- Searching—locating sources, using several sources, being self-reliant, acquiring library skills and the ability to use computer search programs
- Inquiring—asking, interviewing, corresponding
- Investigating—formulating questions
- Gathering data—tabulating, organizing, classifying, recording
- Researching—locating a problem, learning background, setting up investigations, analyzing data, drawing conclusions
- Organizational: skills and abilities of putting information in systematic order
- Recording—tabulating, charting, working systematically, recording completely
- Comparing—noticing how things are alike, looking for similarities, noticing identical features
- Contrasting—noticing how things differ, looking for dissimilarities, noticing unlike features
- Classifying—identifying groups and categories, deciding between alternatives
- Organizing—putting items in order, establishing a system, filing, labeling, arranging
- Outlining—employing major headings and subheadings, using sequential, logical organization
- Reviewing—identifying important items
- Evaluating—recognizing good and poor features, knowing how to improve grades
- Analyzing—seeing implications and relationships, picking out causes and effects, locating new problems
- Creative: skills and abilities of developing new approaches and new ways of thinking
- Planning ahead—seeing possible results and probable modes of attack, setting up hypotheses
- Designing—identifying new problems
- Inventing—creating a method, device, or technique
- Synthesizing—putting familiar things together in a new arrangement, hybridizing, drawing together
- Manipulative: skills and abilities of handling materials and instruments
- Using an instrument—knowing the instrument’s parts, how it works, how to adjust it, its proper use for a given task, its limitations
- Caring for an instrument—knowing how to store it, using proper settings, keeping it clean, handling it properly, knowing its rate capacity, transporting it safely
- Demonstrating—setting up apparatus, describing parts and functions, illustrating scientific principles
- Experimenting—recognizing a question, planning a procedure, collecting data, recording data, analyzing data, drawing conclusions
- Constructing—making simple equipment for demonstrations and investigations
- Calibrating—learning the basic information about calibration, calibrating a thermometer, balance, timer, or other instrument
- Communicative: skills and abilities of transferring information correctly from one experimenter to another
- Asking questions—learning to formulate good questions, to be selective in asking
- Discussing—learning to contribute ideas, listening to ideas of others, keeping on the topic, arriving at conclusions
- Explaning—describing to someone else clearly, clarifying major points, exhibiting patience, being willing to repeat
- Reporting—orally reporting to a class or teacher in capsule form the significant material on a science topic
- Writing—writing a report of an experiment or demonstration; describing the problem, method of attack, data collected, methods of analysis, conclusions drawn, and implications for further work
- Criticizing—constructively criticizing or evaluating a piece of work, a scientific procedure, or conclusion
- Graphing—putting in graphical form the results of a study or experiment, being able to interpret the graph for someone else