Group 4 project
BEFORE THE EXPERIEMENT
Your objective is determined by your understanding of the background of the real life problem.
Keep in mind that the type of questions you ask determine the knowledge you produce.
Scope of Area of Knowledge (AOK):
What is the collective objective of the group(AOK)?
What is the individual objective/concerns to be addressed by each discipline?
How do these individual objectives contribute to the collective objective of the group?
NB:the main objective of the Natural Sciences is to understand the natural world, make generalization and predictions that can be used to solve real life problems.
AS a knower:
Be aware of yourself as a knower
What aspects of yourself do you bring to this process? Do these help or hinder process? How so?
-Your prior knowledge
-Your emotions
-Imagination (hypothesis)
-Biases/subjectivity
-Assumptions
Some general assumptions in the Natural Science
Empiricism: Experimentation+observation are the bedrock of the scientific method making it more reliable than knowledge that depends only on reasoning, revelation and imagination.
Induction: Conclusions that apply to the sample tested can be generalized to represent the whole population(uniformity of nature).
Causation: That an event that leads to another can be used to make predictions.
Falsifiability: A scientific theory should be testable therefore having the opportunity to be proved wrong..
Perspectives
What role did/do perspectives of others(within your group of knowers as well as the wider scientific community of knowers e.g. experts) play in this process of choosing:
The topic of research?
The questions you ask?
Your hypothesis?
The method you use?
The conclusions you draw?
Methods and tools
-Be aware of the scientific methodology
Observation
Experimentation, collection of data and measurements
Formation of hypothesis
Testing of hypothesis
Modification of hypothesis
Drawing conclusions to generalize
Other tools at your disposal include
Peer reviews from each other for checks and balances
Classifications: e.g. the different disciplines that help to organize the knowledge alongside a common denominator(do not fail to note the cross disciple connections/relationships-how do the subjects support each other?)
Theories: these are already established knowledge that can dorm the basis of your inquiry as you seek to test their validity
Models: these are simplified representations of complex ideas that help to describe, explain or make predictions.
AFTER THE EXPERIMENT
Links to the core theme knowledge & the knower
If you can make links to the optional themes, please do so
knowledge & Tech
Knowledge & Lang
NB: be aweare of the TOK concelts and high light them when you can.
Synopsis of your group project
problem background
the group objective
the discipline/subject objective
the research question
As a knnower- what aspects of yourself impacted this process(positively or negatively)
prior knowledge
emotion
imagination
biases/ subjection
What methodology did you use?
was it suitable ?what are the strengths and weakness?asumption
[ experimentation (obbservation +measurement/ evaluation of data collected
literature review-testing of theorieo
statistical methods etc. ]
Perspectives
what perspectives (within your group or from the wider scientific community of knowers) played a role in your choices and decisiion night from the beginning when you formulated youe objectives and research question, to the end when you drew your conclusion.