PROCESS SKILLS OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY

(Process skills involve how science works and what scientists do)

OBSERVATION:

Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch

CLASSIFICATION:

Placing information in categories

INFERRING:

General assumptions about data

PREDICTING:

Done from available data

MEASURING:

Using standards for measurement

COMMUNICATING:

Oral, Written, Charts, Graphs, Etc.

INTERPRETING DATA:

From all aspects of the Investigation: Classifying, Inferring, Communicating, Etc.

FORMULATING QUESTIONS:

Based on what is known, and seeking more

EXPERIMENTATION:

Best way of making judgments relative to a problem; gaining empirical knowledge

FORMULATING MODELS:

Temporary structure that may change when new information becomes available