This document discusses several key science process skills: observing using the five senses to gather information, communicating to share information with others such as through drawing or writing, comparing and contrasting how objects are similar or different, classifying by arranging into groups based on rules, measuring characteristics like length and mass, and predicting likely outcomes based on observations. It provides examples of each skill and references a tale of mongo seeds experiment involving observing plant growth over time in a glass jar.

2. • Observing is a process skill that you
use to gather information or data.
• The five senses (eyes, nose, ears,
tongue, skin) are important in making
observations.

4. • Communicating is a process skill that
you use to share information with
others.
• Drawing and writing the results of
an activity are ways of
communicating.

6. • Comparing is one way of learning
about the relation of the things
around you.
• Contrasting means only looking only
at how objects are different.

8. • Classifying is a process skill that
you can use to arrange or group
things based on a certain rule or
order.
Carl Linnaeus – a Swedish botanist,
he is the first to publish a system of
classifying living things.

10. • Measuring is a science process skill
that helps you know the length, mass,
volume, area, temperature, and other
characteristics of objects.

12. • Predicting is a science process skill
by which you tell what is likely to
happen based on what you know or
observed.

14. The Tale of the Mongo Seeds
Materials:
• 20 -30 pcs. Mongo seeds
• cotton balls
• glass jar

15. Procedures:
(page 48 of Science Experiences 3)

16. Size up!
Knowledge, Process/Skill,
Understanding page 46-47.