Activity

OBSERVING 1. What do you see?

Choose one spot in your
classroom. Write your
observations as you can
about your chosen spot.
Share your observations
with your classmates and
teacher.
Describe the things
you have observed.
2. How do the things on
the spot you chose are
organized?
3. How observant are
you?
• Govern the
conduct of
scientific
investigation.
• Needed to
gather and
analyze
information.
Science
Process
Skills
Provide the foundation for
Basic Science
acquiring integrated science
Process Skills
process skills.

Integrated
Science
Process Skills
 Basic Science Process Skills
1. Observing - using the senses to gather information
about objects or phenomena
 Basic Science Process Skills

2. Inferring-
providing logical
interpretation
or explanation
based on prior
knowledge and
experience
 Basic Science Process Skills

3. Measuring – using both standard and nonstandard

measures or estimates to describe objects or events.
 Basic Science Process Skills

4. Classifying – grouping or categorizing objects or

events based on a pattern of evidence
 Basic Science Process Skills

5. Communicating – using words or graphs to

report the results of observations or experiments.
 Basic Science Process Skills

6. Using number relationships – applying

mathematics to show the relationship between
quantities.
 Integrated Science Process Skills

1. Identifying and controlling variables

• Naming the factors that can affect the outcome
of an experiment
• Manipulating only one factor at a time while
others factors are held constant
 Integrated Science Process Skills

2. Defining operationally
• Creating a definition by
describing what is done
and observed
 Integrated Science Process Skills

3. Formulating
hypothesis
• Making an
educated guess or
proposing a
solution based on
evidences that can
be tested through
experimentation
 Integrated Science Process Skills

4. Interpreting data
• Analyzing the
results of an
investigation and
making sense of
the information
 Integrated Science Process Skills
5. Experimenting
• Carrying out an investigation to test whether its
hypothesis is true or not.
• Fair Test
 Integrated Science Process Skills

6. Formulating a model
• Creating a mental or
physical image of a process
or event like a computer
model, a sketch, an
analogy, or an equation.
ACTIVITY 1.2 MAKING OBSERVATIONS &
INFERENCES
Answer page 7-8 of your Activity Manual

Activities Observations Inferences

( tilting, slanting,
shaking)
Example: The objects rolls, There are
slanting stops, and rolls obstructions and
again. free paths inside
the maze.