DOMAINS OF LEARNING SCIENCE

Learning outcomes:

 Understanding and applying scientific knowledge in local setting as well as global context
 Performing scientific process and skills
 Developing and demonstrating scientific attitudes and values.

What are the domains of science?

 These science domains are knowledge, process of science, creativity, attitude, and application and
connection. By developing these five domains, the students will be able to receive more
meaningful Science learning and expected to improve their learning result.
A. Knowledge - Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something,
such as facts (propositional knowledge), skills (procedural knowledge), or objects (acquaintance
knowledge). The philosophical study of knowledge is called epistemology.
B. Process of science - The methods or process of science include careful observation, record
keeping, logical and mathematical reasoning, experimentation, and submitting conclusions to the
scrutiny of others. Science also requires considerable imagination and creativity; a well-designed
experiment is commonly described as elegant, or beautiful.
C. Creativity - Science is creative in much the same way that art, music, or literature are creative, in
that scientists have to use their imagination to come up with explanations. ... He means that
scientist’s piece together bits of information in a way that makes sense, the way writers’ piece
together characters and events.
D. Attitude - Attitude towards science can be defined as the feelings, beliefs, and values held about
an object that may be the endeavor of science, school science, the impact of science and
technology on society, or scientists. The second one is scientific attitude (i.e., open-minded,
honesty, or skepticism).
E. Application - An application of science is any use of scientific knowledge for a specific purpose,
whether to do more science; to design a product, process, or medical treatment; to develop a new
technology; or to predict the impacts of human actions. classroom and engaging in engineering
practices.
F. Connection - the state of being joined together.
Science makes modern life modern, from plastics to antibiotics, from microchips to spaceships,
from solar power to optical fiber. The true wonder of science lies in its capacity to solve problems
that matter in our everyday lives. Scientists and mathematicians with the ingenuity to connect
marvelously dissimilar spheres are the drivers of scientific innovation, producing solutions not
only for the sake of science but also for the benefit of people and society.

 Learning science - Learning science combines research, data, and practices to help educators
teach better and students learn more. It draws from disciplines including cognitive neuroscience,
learning analytics, data science, behavioral economics, and educational psychology. We draw
upon all of these fields to create education solutions that are nimble and powerful enough to meet
the ever-changing needs of students and teachers worldwide.

 How do we learn science?

Simply stated, the best way for kids to learn science is by doing real science. A child can get
scientific facts or even knowledge from a book. However, they are fully immersed in the learning
process when they do science. Getting hands-on with learning science also reinforces the highly
beneficial “inquiry process”.

 Why is learning science important?

 Firstly, science helps our understanding of the world around us. Everything we know about the
universe, from how trees reproduce to what an atom is made up of, is the result of scientific
research and experiment. Human progress throughout history has largely rested on advances in
science.

Science Process Skills

• These are best thought of, as a set of intellectual skills that are associated with acquiring reliable
information about nature.
• Each process is defined.
• The first eight processes are called "basic processes“.
• The last five are called "integrated processes"

Basic processes
 Observation - This is the most fundamental of all of the processes. Observation may be defined
as the gathering of information through the use of any one, or combination of the five basic
senses; sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
 Measurement - Measurement is an observation made more specific by comparing some attribute
of a system to a standard of reference.
 Classification - is the process of grouping objects on the basis of observable traits
 Quantification - refers to the process of using numbers to express observations rather than
relying only on qualitative descriptions.
 Inferring - is an inventive process in which an assumption of cause is generated to explain an
observed event.
 Predicting - This process deals with projecting events based upon a body of information.
 Relationships - The process skill of relationships deals with the interaction of variables.
 Communication - This process actually refers to a group of skills, all of which represent some
form of systematic reporting of data

Integrated processes
 Interpreting data - This process refers to the intrinsic ability to recognize patterns and
associations within bodies of data.
 Controlling variables - This process is also a kind of group process because one may engage in
several different behaviors in an attempt to control variables.
 Operational definitions - An operational definition is one that is made in measurable, or
observable terms
 Hypothesizing - is, again, an intrinsic and creative mental process rather than a more straight
forward and obvious behavior.
 Experimenting - This process is a systematic approach to solving a problem.

Activity 2:
Direction: Using a Graphic Organizer, make a short meaning or understanding about the domains of
science.

Evaluation:

1. As a student, why should we develop these 5 domains of science? (minimum of 60 words)

2. Does studying or applying science in your life helps you develop your senses? In what way?
Activity 3:
Direction: Explain how Learning science help you as future educator and explain what does it apply to
your future students.
(Minimum of 150 words).

Evaluation:
1. What is scientific research in your own understanding?
2. How does scientific research help you as a student?

Activity 4:
Direction: Using a Venn Diagram, compare and contrast the basic processes and integrated processes of
science.

Evaluation:

1. Give at least 2 differences of basic and integrated processes.

2. Give the similarities of basic and integrated processes.

Activity 5:
Direction: Draw and explain at least any of the basic processes.

Evaluation:
1. Differentiate measurement and quantification.
2. Give at least 2 examples applying the observation basic process.

Activity 6: Give and explain the Integrated Processes using a Mind Map.

Evaluation:
1. Give at least 2 examples of experiments.
2. Which of the integrated processes you think might help you enhanced your way of understanding
and predicting? Why?