Some Science Terminology

Question 1

Inquiry-based science education (IBSE)

Answer 1

mirrors the approach scientists employ when they question that natural world in order to find solutions and develop better understanding.

Question 2

Science

Answer 2

Both a body of knowledge that represents current understanding of natural systems and the process whereby the body of knowledge has been established and is continually extended, refined and revised.

Question 3

Science Knowledge

Answer 3

General ideas (knowledge/content) that learners need to acquire from life, physical, earth and space sciences.

Question 4

Science process skills

Answer 4

skills involved in doing science. Learners acquire science knowledge through a process of investigation where they employ inquiry (thinking) or science process skills. These skills are: observe, compare, classify, predict, infer, communicate etc.

Question 5

Scientific literacy

Answer 5

the capacity to us scientific knowledge, to identify questions and to draw evidence-based conclusions in order to understand and help make decisions about the natural world and the changes made to it through human activity

Question 6

The Theory-Theory

Answer 6

view that humans learn through process of theory formation and revision much like scientists

Question 7

Conceptual Change

Answer 7

support children to modify their theories to make better sense of the world.