Integrated Science 


Understanding the physical world requires concepts from different branches of science. When you are in awe of the stars or of some beautiful colorful creatures or of the possibilities of solar energy, your sense of beauty is enhanced when you know the role of these concepts. For a complete understanding of the secrets behind all that beauty of these phenomena you need to look at science in an integrated way. Even though science seems to be complex, all branches of science rest upon a relative small number of basic ideas, the unifying concepts.

These unifying concepts are for example: the Principle of Falsifiability: "For a hypothesis to be considered scientific it must be testable- it must, in principle, be capable of being proven wrong." or the Law of Conservation of Energy: "Energy cannot be created or destroyed." ,and the Atomic Nature of Matter: "All material objects are made of atoms."


When life sciences and physical sciences overlap, or integrate, we talk about integrated science. The tasks below are all part of integrated science as they show how you will need to integrate all branches of science to understand science in everyday life and in the news, from the greenhouse effect to tsunamis to genetic engineering.



The following three PPT's have been removed and can be found on www.teacherspayteachers.com. Look for Steamteacher


Desertification

Ecosystem

Plate Tectonics