SPS Question & Instructions

QUESTIONS/INSTRUCTIONS LEADING TO SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS

1.OBSERVING.

• What is the difference between these two objects?

• What is unusual about this picture?
• How does it taste?
• What colour is the ball?
• How does the object feel?
• What can you see?
• How does the object feel?
• Are they the same?
• Does it longer or shorter?
• What happen when you push the ball harder?

2. CLASSIFYING

• Are all the objects the same?

• What is the difference between the seeds in the two groups?
• How are the seeds in each group alike?
• Why did you put these objects in one group? Why did you put the other objects in
the other group?
• Why did you sort/group the objects in such a way?
• How did you sort the objects?
• How did you group the objects?
• Can you sort/group the objects in other way?

3. MEASURING AND USING NUMBERS

• Of which colour was the greatest number of buttons?

• What unit did you use?
• What instrument did you use to measure?
• What is the weight/height/length of the object?
• Which plant is taller?
• Which has more leaves?
• Count the umber of leaves. How many leaves are there?
• How long is the table?

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4. MAKING INFERENCES

• Why do you think it turns yellow?

• What do you think happens?
• What do you think cause it?
• What do you think the object is?
• Are they any other reason for that?
• Give one reason based on your observation.
• What makes the objects float?
• Why do you think the nails become rusting?

5. PREDICTING

• What do you think will happen next?

• What will happen to stem after 3 weeks?
• What will happen to both nails after 7 days?
• What do you think will happen to the fish after sometime?
• What is the number of animal at the year of 2008?

6. COMMUNICATING

• Based on the product label, describe the product.

• What can you say about this object?
• Tell us how you make the bulb lights up.
• Draw how the plant grows after 1 week.
• Name one plant that reproduces in the same way as the tapioca plant
• Describe what happens when you add water to it?

7.SPACE-TIME RELATIONSHIP

• Where is the ball after a while?

• What will happen to the ice after a few minutes?
• What happened before / after that?
• What happened first/ last?
• How does the tree look like from inside the house?
• Where is the canteen located?
• How did it look from the top/bottom/side?

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8.INTERPRETING DATA

• What can you say about brightness of the bulb when one battery is used?
• What happened to the brightness of the bulb as the number of batteries increase?
• How does the number of batteries effect the brightness of the bulb?
• Based on the pictograph what is the most common height among your classmates?
• What is the trend of the graph?

9.DEFINING OPERATIONALLY

• What is a ball? Can you tell me what a ball is? What do you do with the ball?
• What are the things needed to make a complete circuit?
• What is a complete circuit?
• How did you make a complete circuit?
• What did you to the things to make a complete circuit?
• What is man made materials?
• How do you explain speed?

10 CONTROLLING VARIABLES

• What are the things that you use in the activity?

• What are the things that affect the result of the activity?
• What do you keep the same?
• What do you measure?
• What do you need to change?
• How does size of a sponge affect the amount of water it will hold?

11 MAKING HYPOTHESES

• What will happen if I add more water?

• What do you think will happen if this is change?
• What is the relationship between the number of batteries use and the brightness of
the bulb?
• What will happen to the result if we change this?
• What will be affect if this is change?
• Will the plant grow healthier if we use more water?

12 EXPERIMENTING

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• What is your conclusion?

• Describe what you will do to find out what plant need to grow healthy.
• How would you prove your hypothesis/inferences?
• Design a fair test.