Basic Science Process Skills

What is a Science Process Skills?

• It is a way of investigation that
involves specific skills which
require the following steps:
Planning, collecting, organizing
and interpreting data and
making a conclusion.

• set of intellectual skills that are

associated with acquiring reliable
information about nature.
What are the Basic Science Process Skills?

OBSERVING
MEASURING

PREDICTING
INFERRING

CLASSIFYING
COMMUNICATING
What are the Basic Science Process Skills?

OBSERVING
 Scientific Research starts
with observation.
BASIC
SCIENCE We observe objects and events
PROCESS using all our five senses, and this
is how we learn about the world
around us.
SKILLS:
OBSERVING Observations can be
QUALITATIVE or
QUANTITATIVE
• The class will be divided into 5
groups. Each group will be given an
object to examine for 5 minutes.

• After observing, each member will

write their observation on the
material provided by the teacher.

• The answers of the group will be

processed after.
 • A process skill that involves collecting
information about objects/ phenomena
USING THE FIVE SENSES. (Hearing, sight,
touch, taste or smell)

•The ability to make good observations is also

essential to the development of the other science
process skills: communicating, classifying,
measuring
Why observing a fundamental skill in Research?

• In order for us to acquire information

about the objects/ phenomena.

•To be aware of the things happening

in the environment.
•to prove or disprove hypotheses using
the scientific method
Qualitative Observation

involves the use of five sensory

organs, sight, smell, taste,
touch, and hearing, and their
function to examine the
attributes.
 Different processes of Observing
•Qualitative Observation

• subjective in nature
• focuses on the
characteristics and
qualities of the variables
rather than the numerical
value.
 Qualitative Statements

• The water is cold.

• The bag of What other
potatoes is heavy. qualitative
• The soup is very
salty.
statements can you
give?
QUANTITATIVE OBSERVATION

Quantitative observation is the type of

observation that deals in quantifiable
variables.

use numbers to express.

 QUANTITATIVE OBSERVATION

reserved for objects or phenomena that

can be tracked and measured with
precision

The hard sciences, physics, chemistry, etc.

usually deal with quantitative data and
avoid the collection of too much
qualitative data.
 Quantitative Statements

• The water is 1-
degree Celsius. What other
• The bag of quantitative
potatoes weighs
13.5 kilograms. statements can you
• The soup is 75% give?
salty.
 CHANGE

• some observation in science

requires us to look at
something over a longer
period of time.

• This process of
observations is called
change.
CHANGE Questions/Statements

• If you mix sugar with water, what will

happen?
• If you throw a ball at a wall, how will it
bounce?
• how far the water reaches at the beach
at different times of year?
• the average temperature of an area over
a 10-year period.