This document outlines basic and integrated science process skills for inquiry-based science. Basic skills include observing, measuring, inferring, classifying, predicting, and communicating. Integrated skills involve formulating hypotheses, identifying variables, describing relationships, investigating experimentally, acquiring and organizing data, analyzing investigations, and formulating models. It also provides an example of developing a hypothesis about the attraction of metals to magnets through observation, testing, and drawing conclusions to either accept or modify the hypothesis based on the results. The document advocates for small initiatives that can become influential through imitation and references Kolb's experiential learning cycle of planning, experiencing, reviewing, and making meaning.
3. Integrated Science Process
Skills
formulating hypothesis
identifying variables
describing relationships between
variables
investigating
experimenting
acquiring data/organizing data
analyzing investigations
formulating models
4. Change comes from small
initiatives which work; initiatives
which, when imitated become
the fashion.
Charles Handy (1994)
5. Making Hypothesis
Metals are attracted to
OBSERVATION magnets
All metals are always
attracted to magnets
MAKE A
HYPOTHESIS
Use a magnet to test
different metals
TEST THE
HYPOTHESIS
Does the result of the test
DRAW support different hypothesis?
CONCLUSIONS No! Some metals are attracted
to the magnet and some are not.
ACCEPT
THE MAKE A
HYPOTHESI NEW
S HYPOTHESI
S
6. NEW
EXPERIENCING
EXPERIENCE
PLANNING REVIEWING
for
ACTION
MAKING
MEANING
Experiential learning activity based on experiential learning
cycle By Kolb (1984)
