Chapter 1: The Wonderful World of Science
Welcome to science! In this first chapter we find out what science is, see that it is all around us, and learn the simple steps scientists use to answer questions: observe, ask, guess and test.
In this chapter you will
- understand what science is and where we find it
- use the steps of the scientific method
- plan a fair test
Topics
- What is Science? NCERT Ch 1
Science is a way of observing, thinking and testing to understand the world.
- How We Find Answers: Observe, Guess, Test NCERT Ch 1
Scientific method: observe, ask, guess, test, conclude. A wrong guess leads to a new guess.
Key words
- Science
- a way of observing, thinking and testing to understand the world
- Curiosity
- the wish to know why and how
- Observation
- something we notice using our senses
- Hypothesis
- a guess that can be tested
- Experiment
- a test done to check a guess
- Fair test
- a test in which only one thing is changed
Summary
- Science is a way of observing, thinking and testing to understand the world.
- Science is everywhere, and new discoveries keep adding to (and sometimes changing) what we know.
- The scientific method: observe, ask a question, make a guess, test it, and conclude.
- In a fair test only one thing is changed.