Nature of Science What is Nature of Science

Nature of Science

What is Nature of Science? • Your Ideas?

What is Nature of Science? • Nature of Science refers to key principles and ideas which provide a description of science as a way of knowing, as well as characteristics of scientific knowledge. (google) • Science is a way of learning about the natural world, as defined by the Life Science textbook.

Scientific Theory • What is this?

Scientific Theory • Scientific Theory is defined as a coherent group of propositions formulated to explain a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world and repeatedly confirmed through experiment or observation. (dictionary. com)

Scientific Law • What is this? • How is this different from a theory?

Scientific Law • Dictionary. com defines scientific law as a phenomenon of nature that has been proven to invariably occur whenever certain conditions exist or are met; also, a formal statement about such a phenomenon; also called natural law.

Theory vs. Law • What is the difference between the two?

Engineering • What is engineering? • What do you think of when you hear the word engineering?

Engineering • the art or science of making practical application of the knowledge of pure sciences, as physics or chemistry, as in the construction of engines, bridges, buildings, mines, ships, and chemical plants. (dictionary. com) • Adapting and changing the world, technology use, growth