Scientific Skills: Sylvester Saimon Simin, Smd, Kttc

SCIENTIFIC SKILLS

SYLVESTER SAIMON SIMIN, SMD, KTTC

DEFINITION • SCIENCE – Knowledge about the world, especially based on examination and testing, and on facts that can be proved (Longman Dictionary) – Science is the process and product of man who possesses an inquisitive attitude that seeks to describe and explain the natural world and the artificial world by way of testing.(Poh Swee Hiang, p 17)

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DEFINITION • PROCESS – Connected series of actions, changes etc (Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English)

• MANIPULATE – Operate, handle with skill (Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English)

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DEFINITION • SKILL – Ability to do something expertly and well; acquired by training & experience (Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English)

• SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS – How a scientist works, thinks and studies problems (Friedl, 1995)

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SCIENTIFIC SKILLS SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS BASIC SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS

SCIENCE MANIPULATIVE SKILLS

INTEGRATED SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS

• OBSERVING

• INTERPRETING DATA

• CLASSIFYING

• DEFINING OPERATIONALLY

• MEASURING AND USING NUMBERS • MAKING INFERENCES

• CONTROLLING VARIABLES

• PREDICTING

• MAKING HYPOTHESES

• COMMUNICATING

• EXPERIMENTING

• Use and handle science apparatus and substances • Handle specimens correctly and carefully • Draw specimens and apparatus • Clean science apparatus • Store science apparatus

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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SKILLS

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