The natural sciences aim to explore the natural world around us and how it works through a systematic process of observation, evidence, and imagination used in scientific models, resulting to generalized assertions (scientific claims) based on predictions. Throughout the discourse of TOK, knowledge production and development in natural sciences would be unpacked through the understanding its scope and nature, perspectives and context, methods and tools, and ethical stance involved-the 4 elements of the knowledge framework of the new theory of knowledge curriculum, TOK 2022.
Activity 1 – Teachers can begin with an introductory video to help build momentum in the classroom as it help to connect the real world situations that best manifests the scope of the Natural science as knowledge among knowers.
The study of the natural sciences is an umbrella including the study of matter and energy with their motion in time and space in Physics; the study of composition, structure, and properties of matter and energy in Chemistry; the study of the growth and interactions of life in Biology, the study of the oceans in Oceanography, and the study of the climates in Climatology.
The natural sciences is somewhat not free of ‘pseudoscience’ claims, where a system of beliefs and practices are claimed to be scientific without meeting all the criteria of scientific method. Herein, it is imperative to explore scientific knowledge claims based on the structured scientific method.
To unlock the mysteries of the universe and explore the natural sciences as an Area of Knowledge (AOK), revealing the laws and phenomena that govern the natural world, start your scientific quest today. Delve into the methodologies scientists use to uncover truths about the physical world, the ethical implications of scientific discoveries, and the role of experimentation and evidence in building scientific knowledge.
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