These skills represent the scientific thinking and process skills that are essential to scientific inquiry. An inquiry based science classroom uses and encourages the use of these skills in science activities.
Observing - Generating reasonable questions about the world based on observation. Examples: Seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and feeling.
Comparing and measuring - Using simple measurement tools to provide consistency in an investigation. Example: Sensory observations, weight, quantity, quality, temperature and capacity.
Relating - Developing solutions to unfamiliar problems through reasoning, observation and experimentation. Examples: Asking questions, making a hypothesis, understanding relationships, designing and conducting simple investigations, and identifying the control and variables in an investigation.
Applying - Using sources of information to help solve problems. Examples: Applying science learning to resolve current issues, inventing a new technology, using math and forming additional questions .
