{"id":8048,"date":"2013-09-07T00:48:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T00:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/?page_id=8048"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:58:41","slug":"science-process-skills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/science-process-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Process Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Science Process Skills\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_UYSxnXR71F4\"><div id=\"lyte_UYSxnXR71F4\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FUYSxnXR71F4%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">Science Process Skills<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UYSxnXR71F4\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FUYSxnXR71F4%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Science Process Skills\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nfunction qcT_Function() {\n  var x = document.getElementById(\"qcT\");\n  if (x.style.display === \"none\") {\n    x.style.display = \"block\";\n  } else {\n    x.style.display = \"none\";\n  }\n}\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"moc-toc hide-on-desktop hide-on-tablet\">\n<div><button onclick=\"qcT_Function()\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/toc2.svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"show or hide table of contents\"><\/button><\/p>\n<p>On this page<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<nav id=\"qcT\" style=\"display:none;\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"toc-h2\"><a href=\"#Observing\" class=\"smooth-scroll\">Observing<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toc-h2\"><a href=\"#Hypothesizing\" class=\"smooth-scroll\">Hypothesizing<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toc-h2\"><a href=\"#Ordering\" class=\"smooth-scroll\">Ordering<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toc-h2\"><a href=\"#Categorizing\" class=\"smooth-scroll\">Categorizing<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toc-h2\"><a href=\"#Comparing\" class=\"smooth-scroll\">Comparing<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toc-h2\"><a href=\"#Inferring\" class=\"smooth-scroll\">Inferring<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toc-h2\"><a href=\"#Applying\" class=\"smooth-scroll\">Applying<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"toc-h2\"><a href=\"#Communicating\" class=\"smooth-scroll\">Communicating<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion\"><input id=\"transcript\" type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler_button\" \/><label for=\"transcript\">Transcript<\/label>\n<div class=\"spoiler\" id=\"transcript-spoiler\">\n<p>The science process skills include observing, hypothesizing, ordering, categorizing, comparing, inferring, implying, and communicating. These are all important science skills, and, for the most part, this list goes from easiest to hardest.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to understand one science skill, it&#8217;s good to understand the science skills before it. I want to go over all of these and give a brief description of each.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Observing\" class=\"m-toc-anchor\"><\/span>Observing<\/h2>\n<p>\nObserving is pretty self-explanatory\u2014this is being able to write down an accurate description of something observed in nature or something observed in an experiment.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Hypothesizing\" class=\"m-toc-anchor\"><\/span>Hypothesizing<\/h2>\n<p>\nHypothesizing is building off an observation. You take an observation and then you form a prediction based off that observation.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Ordering\" class=\"m-toc-anchor\"><\/span>Ordering<\/h2>\n<p>\nOrdering and categorizing are similar because they both have to do with the structure of information. In ordering, you&#8217;re taking information and maybe putting it in a list from most important to least important, or you&#8217;re putting it in some kind of order to make the information very accessible and very understandable.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Categorizing\" class=\"m-toc-anchor\"><\/span>Categorizing<\/h2>\n<p>\nCategorizing has to do with taking the information and putting it with other like information so you have different categories of information.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Comparing\" class=\"m-toc-anchor\"><\/span>Comparing<\/h2>\n<p>\nComparing has to do with noticing the similarities between different events or different experiments. This is important because sometimes two experiments or two scientific phenomena will look totally different, but through the skill of comparing, you&#8217;ll be able to notice the similarities between the two.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Inferring\" class=\"m-toc-anchor\"><\/span>Inferring<\/h2>\n<p>\nInferring is different than hypothesizing because hypothesizing is making a prediction of something that will happen, whereas inferring is making a conjecture about something that did happen. Hypothesizing is looking forward to a future event, while inferring is looking back to a past event, attempting to explain it from the information already known.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Applying\" class=\"m-toc-anchor\"><\/span>Applying<\/h2>\n<p>\nApplying is taking a prediction and putting it into an experiment. In other words, you&#8217;re taking your observation, your hypothesis of what might happen, and actually applying it to an experiment.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Communicating\" class=\"m-toc-anchor\"><\/span>Communicating<\/h2>\n<p>\nFinally, we have communicating, which actually goes hand-in-hand with observing because observing is making accurate descriptions of something you have seen. Communicating is taking those observations and being able to communicate or tell that to someone else. That may be by writing a description of it or telling them about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is very important because by being able to communicate information, scientists are able to feed off each other&#8217;s discoveries. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s important to be able to accurately communicate scientific information.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the science process skills.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-8048","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"page_category-miscellaneous-experiment-videos"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8048"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266278,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8048\/revisions\/266278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}