What is Science? (p. 6-8)

Science is a way of learning about the natural world, it is also the knowledge gained by exploring the natural world.
Scientists use skills such as observing, inferring, predicting, classifying, and making models to learn more about the world.
Observe means using one or more of your senses to gather information.
The human senses are sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
The observations can be either quantitative or qualitative.
Quantitative observations deal with a number, or amount.
Qualitative observations deal with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers.
To infer is the action of explaining or interpreting the things you observe.
To predict means making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence.
To classify is the process of grouping items that are alike in some way.
To classify things helps to stay organized so they can be easily find and use later.
To make models involves create representations of complex objects or processes.
Models help people to study and understand things that are complex or that can’t be observed directly.
Life science is the study of living things. Life science is also known as Biology. Scientists who study living tings are called biologists.
Biology is the science that studies all of living things.
People who study Life science careers can work in forests, laboratories, farms, or hospitals.
Cyr M, Miaoulis I, Padilla M.,"Science Explorer", Ed. Pearsons, USA,2009.