Skills and Processes in Science

Education

• Skills to be developed in the classroom

Basic Science Process Skills
Integrated Science Process Skills
Manipulative Skills
Skills and Processes
List two manipulative skills

List two basic science process

skill

List two integrated science

process skills

Knowledge of science

Scientific Attitudes & Values

Science Practical and Manipulative
Skills
 Using and handling science equipment

 Handling living and non living specimen

 Drawing specimen, science equipment and

material perfectly and using correct ratio

 Cleaning science equipment using correct

method

 Storing/keeping science equipment and

materials correctly and safely
 Observing: Basic Process Skill

Importance
sparks inquiry about the environment
form the base for investigation
leads to the construction of inference, prediction and/or
hypotheses
Subskills
 Use all appropriate senses
 Detailed observation: differences and similarities
 Distinguish relevant from irrelevant observation
 Making quantitative observation
 Choose to extend the senses
 Describe properties as well as changes in properties
 Pursue problem, question
Observation Subskills
 Yes, koko jelly
What is that object?
It looks round, soft,
small so it must be a
small object

Apalah mereka
pakai teka
No lah, it’s a saja!!!!
ball
 Look at both flowers

List two similarities and

two differences you can
observe

Why do you think they

are the same?

Why do you think they

are different?
 Inferring: Basic Process Skills

 An observation is an experience obtained through

one of the senses
 Inference is an explanation of an observation
 Possible to make more than one inference to
explain an observation
Skills and Attitudes in the Lab
B
A

B
In the Lab
 Measuring: Basic Process Skills

Importance
 Ability to use measuring instrument
 Ability to carry out calculation
 Judgment about appropriate instrument
 Usage of approximate and precise measurement
 Precision and accuracy

 Practice skill  Hands on activities

 Usage of metric measurement
 Predicting: Basic Process Skills

 A specific forecast of what the future observation will be

 Base on observation, measurement and inference
 Not base on observation  wild guess
 Accurate prediction  from precise measurement
 Precision and accuracy
Communicating: Basic Process Skill

 Oral or written words

Describing phenomena
 Diagrams
According to ratio
 Maps
According to scale, direction
 Graphs
Relationship between two variables
 Mathematical equation
Using symbols
 Visual demonstration
manipulating
 Classifying: Basic Process Skills

 Arrangement of object into different categories

 Dependent upon the skill of observation and comparison

Using Space & Time Relationship:

Basic Process Skills

 Develops skills in description of spatial relationship and

changes with time
 Study of shapes, symmetry, motion and rate change