Chapter 1: Lesson 1- Understanding Science And The Scientific Revolution

Question 1

The observation identification description experimental investigation and theoretical explanation of natural phenomena

Answer 1

The American heritage dictionary of the English language (2004)

Question 2

An ongoing theoretical dialogue with nature in which scientists have developed successively more powerful models to account for a wider range of phenomena

Answer 2

Snir, et al.(2003)

Question 3

Science in a broader cultural sense is also a way of understanding the world and human interactions with it

Answer 3

Cobern (1993)

Question 4

Are human endeavor within which people try to make sense of the environment and a worldview that is built around practices that purport to guide the individual towards a personal understanding

Answer 4

Watters and Diezmann (2003)

Question 5

An intellectual as well as social activity carried out by humans in their pursuit to have a better understanding of the natural world

Answer 5

Gribbin (2003)

Question 6

Define science as a cultural as well as the individual process of thoughts

Answer 6

Cajete (1999)

Question 7

Define science in relation to scientific literacy that includes processes skills concepts and the ability to communicate ideas based on reasons

Answer 7

Bybee (1997), and Thier and Daviss (2002)

Question 8

It is a process of finding out and a system for organizing and reporting discoveries

Answer 8

(Lind 1997)

Question 9

Science is also construed as a form of social language developed by the scientific community

Answer 9

(Scott, Asoko, and Leach 2007)

Question 10

As a social language they went on to explain that science is based on Specific concepts such as energy mass and entropy; it involves the development of models that provide accounts of phenomena in the natural world and it is characterized by key epistemological features such as the development of theories

Answer 10

(Scott, Asoko, and Leach 2007)

Question 11

How can science be defined?

Answer 11

1. It is an idea
2. It is a personal and social activity
3. It is a course or field of study
4. It is an intellectual activity

Question 12

Is an era of enlightenment and intellectualization that nurtured the developments in the fields of mathematics physics astronomy biology and chemistry that changed the observations of society about the environment. It is also the golden age for the people committed to principles of science

Answer 12

Scientific revolution