{"id":25734,"date":"2025-09-20T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vividscience.org\/?page_id=25734"},"modified":"2025-09-21T22:08:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:08:59","slug":"science-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vividscience.org\/index.php\/online-envirobio\/field-lab\/discovery\/science-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"1a3 Science Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Science Knowledge Objectives:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  • Describe how science knowledge is comprised of concepts, skills, and connections with other disciplines.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Provide examples of science knowledge related to biodiversity, ecology, and conservation biology.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Explain how the course concepts relate to real life, including the final portfolio assignment.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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    It’s a good time to check the quality of your notes.\u00a0 Use your notes to answer these questions like you would on a quiz:<\/h5> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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    Describe each of the three course topics, including how each can relate to bees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    Explain what a naturalist studies, and how they can differ from a scientist.<\/p>\n

    Outline a day trip that includes all three aspects of science discovery: exploration, description, and explanation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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    Science discovery (exploration, description, and explanation) is the process used to develop science knowledge.\u00a0 Science knowledge is also often broken into three components: concepts, skills, and connections with other disciplines.<\/h6> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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    What? Where? When? Why? How? Who?\u00a0 These are some of the questions asked in science.\u00a0 Conceptual understanding can be small discrete facts supported by evidence or larger accumulations of knowledge that describe (laws) or explain (theories) natural phenomena.<\/h6> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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    Doing science means being able to carry out a variety of activities from safety procedures to planning intricate studies.\u00a0 Critical and creative thinking are used to generate questions, design experiments, and analyze results.\u00a0 Some biological research is incredibly hands-on requiring field-work and laboratory skills.\u00a0 Other research requires computer modeling and significant grant writing to acquire funding for equipment and research teams.<\/h6> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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    The natural world is complex and often issues transcend a single discipline.\u00a0 A biologist could work with a chemist or mathematician in designing a study or interpreting data.\u00a0 If an issue has multiple stakeholders, business representatives, politicians, and government representatives may be informed by research data.\u00a0<\/h6> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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    This course is organized around the basic concepts, skills, and connections that define environmental biology.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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