Science Year 5: Scientific Skills
January 20, 2017
Scientific Skills
- Scientific skills are skills that practiced when conducting an experiment or investigation
- Scientific skills consist of SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS and MANIPULATIVE SKILLS
Science Process Skill
- Observing
- Making inferences
- Measuring and using numbers
- Using the relationship of space and time
- Making hypotheses
- Interpreting data
- Predicting
- Experimenting
- Classifying
- Controlling variables
- Defining operationally
- Communicating
Manipulative Skills
- Manipulative skills are practiced simultaneously when conducting any science activities such as experiments and field work
- Manipulative skills are psycho motor skills which enable any science activities to be carried out efficiently and accurately.
- Manipulative skills are
b) Handling specimens correctly and carefully
c) Sketching specimens, apparatus and substances correctly
d) Cleaning science apparatus correctly
e) Keeping apparatus and science substances correctly and safely
