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SCIENTIFIC TRAITS & ATTITUDES

Knowledgeable Knows many science generalizations, concepts, and facts; understands scientific inquiry;

and understands the history, nature, social, personal, and technological perspectives of science.

Reflective willingly considers new ideas and evidence against previous ideas and evidence.

Curious asks and answers questions to understand at deeper levels.

Open-minded tolerates ideas and opinions of others and the importance of carefully considering ideas

that may seem disquieting or at odds with what is generally believed and willing to change ideas in light

of new evidence.

Skeptical doubts, questions, and reconsiders conclusions.

Sensitive considers all actions and inactions results on all living and nonliving things.

Tentative hesitant to draw conclusions.

Objective makes decisions based on facts.

Cooperative works with others for common goals and shares ideas.

Persistent continues despite obstacles, warnings or setbacks.

Acceptant considers failure as an occasional part of the scientific endeavor.

Enjoyment expresses pleasure in understanding and pursuing understanding.

Flexibility willing to change with new evidence and/ or explanation.

Respect for evidence or Insistence on evidence requires evidence to formulate explanations and make

decisions and will seek additional evidence to verify ideas and make decisions.

Creative imagines ideas that are original or not ordinarily thought

Science self-efficacy believe in their abilities and skills in using and learning science processes and

knowledge in a useful effective manner

Values communication seeks ways to communicate that effectively enable others to accurately

conceptualize the ideas wanting to be communicated.

Disposed to apply science knowledge ready to think and apply what they know related to science; all

ideas from all dimensions (knowledge, processes, attitudes, and perspectives of science).

Caring for others, the natural world, and human-made objects caring includes the ways that people

individually and collectively participate for the well being of all things for the present and future

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SCIENTIFIC METHOD

The steps of the Scientific Method are:

Observation/Research

Hypothesis

Prediction

Experimentation

Conclusion

OBSERVATION - is either an activity of a living being, such as a human, consisting of receiving knowledge

of the outside world through the senses, or the recording of data using scientific instruments. The term

may also refer to any data collected during this activity. An observation can also be the way you look at

things or when you look at something.

HYPOTHESIS - is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. The term derives from the Greek,

hypotithenai meaning "to put under" or "to suppose". For a hypothesis to be put forward as a scientific

hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it. Scientists generally base scientific

hypotheses on previous observations that cannot satisfactorily be explained with the available scientific

theories.

PREDICTION - or forecast is a statement about the way things will happen in the future, often but not

always based on experience or knowledge. While there is much overlap between prediction and

forecast, a prediction may be a statement that some outcome is expected, while a forecast may cover a

range of possible outcomes.

EXPERIMENT - is a methodicaltrial and errorprocedure carried out with the goal of verifying, falsifying,

or establishing the validity of ahypothesis. Experiments vary greatly in their goal and scale, but always

rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results. A child may carry out basic experiments

to understand the nature of gravity, while teams of scientists may take years of systematic investigation

to advance the understanding of a phenomenon.

The relationship between religion and science has been a focus of the demarcation problem. Somewhat

related is the claim that science and religion may pursue knowledge using different methodologies. The

scientific method relies on reason and empiricism, religion acknowledges revelation, faith andsacredness. Some scholars say science and religion are separate, as in John William Draper's conflict

thesis and Stephen Jay Gould's non-overlapping magisteria, while others (John Lennox, Thomas Berry,

Brian Swimme, Ken Wilber, et al.) propose an interconnection.CONCLUSION - when a statement or

question comes to an answer; when an idea or thought is settled.

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The history of science is the study of the historical development of human understandings of the natural

world and the domains of the social sciences. (The history of Arts and humanities are termed History of

scholarship). Until the late 20th century the history of science, especially of the physical and biological

sciences, was seen as a narrative celebrating the triumph of true theories over false. Science was

portrayed as a major dimension of the progress of civilization. In recent decades, postmodern views,

especially influenced by Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), the history is seen

in terms of competing paradigms or conceptual systems battling for intellectual supremacy in a wider

matrix that includes intellectual, cultural, economic and political themes outside pure science. New

attention is paid to science outside the context of Western Europe.