Gen Science

• Six mental skills


  • Observe - the use of all senses
  • Infer - ability to arrive at a conclusion without visual observation
  • Measure - ability to discern what is important or irrelevant
  • Classify - segregation of unrelated observations
  • Experiment - a test carried out to verify or reject a claim
  • Communicate - to relay information esp. the results of a study
• Scientific method


  1. Observation

  2. Identifying the problem

  3. Formulating the hypothesis

  4. Experimentation

  5. Conclusion

  6. Formulation of law

  7. Continual re-examination
• Deductive reasoning


  Analysis of specific cases using general principles
• Inductive reasoning


  Method of discovering general principles by careful examination of specific cases
• Hypothesis


  Tentative explanation for a phenomenon
• Theory


  A hypothesis that has survived repeated challenges and accumulated substantial report; may be modified or discarded
• Law or principle


  Formal statement of the way in which events occur under given situation; factual and always correct
• Technology


  Application of science
• Science - Product of human intelligence