Methodology of Teaching Science

Appendix 3

National Curriculum Framework on Science

SCIENCE

One important human response to the wonder and awe of the nature from the earliest times has been to observe the physical and biological environments carefully, look for any meaningful patterns and relations, make and use new tools to interact with nature and build conceptual models to understand the world. This human endeavour has led to modern science. Broadly speaking, the scientific method involves several interconnected steps: observation, looking for regularities and patterns, making hypotheses, devising qualitative or mathematical models, deducing their consequences, verification or falsification of theories through observations and controlled experiments and thus arriving at ...