Int sci

• Examples of technological applications


  • Smartphone
  • Laptop
  • Motor
• Scientific knowledge is applied to create technological advances
• How scientists work


  1. Observing and exploring the natural world

  2. Researching by using secondary sources of information

  3. Fair testing by controlling variables in practical tests

  4. Seeking patterns by carrying out surveys and finding links (correlations)

  5. Using models to explain findings

  6. Identifying and classifying materials, objects and living things

  7. Using and evaluating a technique or design when solving a problem
• Skills scientists need to develop


  • Forming scientific ideas (hypotheses)
  • Planning
  • Observing and measuring
  • Recording data
  • Analysing and interpreting data
  • Evaluating
  • Working in a team
  • Communicating findings to other scientists
• Science covers a wide variety of areas such as biology, chemistry, physics, geology
• Science is a way of finding out about the natural world including how materials and living things behave