SCIENTIFIC

SKILLS

SYLVESTER SAIMON SIMIN,

SMD, KTTC
 DEFINITION
• SCIENCE
– Knowledge about the world, especially based on
examination and testing, and on facts that can be
proved (Longman Dictionary)
– Science is the process and product of man who
possesses an inquisitive attitude that seeks to
describe and explain the natural world and the
artificial world by way of testing.(Poh Swee Hiang, p
17)

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 DEFINITION
• PROCESS
– Connected series of actions, changes etc
(Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current
English)

• MANIPULATE
– Operate, handle with skill
(Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current
English)

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 DEFINITION
• SKILL
– Ability to do something expertly and well; acquired by
training & experience
(Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current
English)

• SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS

– How a scientist works, thinks and studies problems
(Friedl, 1995)

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 SCIENTIFIC SKILLS

SCIENCE SCIENCE MANIPULATIVE

PROCESS SKILLS SKILLS

• Use and handle

BASIC SCIENCE INTEGRATED SCIENCE science apparatus
PROCESS SKILLS PROCESS SKILLS and substances
• Handle specimens
correctly and carefully
• OBSERVING • INTERPRETING DATA
• Draw specimens and
• CLASSIFYING • DEFINING apparatus
• MEASURING AND OPERATIONALLY
• Clean science
USING NUMBERS • CONTROLLING apparatus
• MAKING VARIABLES
• Store science
INFERENCES • MAKING apparatus
• PREDICTING HYPOTHESES

• COMMUNICATING • EXPERIMENTING

• USING TIME-SPACE
RELATIONSHIP

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 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SKILLS

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