Textbook
Chapter 1: Scientific Skills
Chapter 2: Human
Chapter 3: Animal
Chapter 4: Plant
Chapter 5: Properties of Light
Chapter 6: Sound
Chapter 7: Energy
Chapter 8: Material
Chapter 9: Earth
Chapter 10: Machines
Chapter 1: Scientific Skills
What you need to learn in this chapter
In this chapter, we will be learning about scientific skills.
We will learn how to observe things using our senses and tools to make qualitative observations.
We will also learn how to classify things by comparing their similarities and differences based on their characteristics.
These skills will help us understand and explain different phenomena and changes that occur in the world around us.
Topics in this chapter
1. Science Process Skills
What you will learn in this topic
- Observe by using all the senses involved and tools if necessary to make qualitative observations to explain the phenomena or changes that occur
- Classify by comparing or identifying similarities and differences based on common characteristics
- Measure and use numbers by using appropriate tools and standard units with correct techniques
- Make inferences by stating the initial conclusion or by giving reasonable explanations for the observation made using the information gathered
- Predict by making reasonable assumptions about an event or phenomenon based on observations, prior experiences or data
- Communicate by recording information or ideas in suitable forms and presenting them systematically
- Use space - time relationship by arranging occurrences of phenomenon or event in a chronological order based on time
- Interpret data by selecting relevant ideas about an object, event or trend found in the data to make an explanation
- Define operationally by describing an interpretation of a task carried out and observed in a situation according to determined aspects
- Control variables by determining the responding and constant variables after the manipulated variable in the investigation have been determined
- Make a hypothesis by making a general statement that can be tested based on the relationship between the variables in the investigation
- Experiment by using the basic science process skills to collect and interpret data, summarise to prove the hypothesis and write a report
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