Scied Talk Show Script

SCIED TALK SHOW SCRIPT VOICE OVER: KNOWLEDGE, INTERPRETATION, INVESTIGATION SET OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION IN THE REAL WORLD, ACCESSED AND EXPOSED IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL ARENA. THIS IS … SCIENCE EDUCATION IN YOUR SCREEN, SciEd Talk! HOST: Good day science education community. Welcome to our today’s episode of substantial discussion about relevant topics in science education. Anything you need to know about the natural world around you, let’s talk it over here in our virtual platform. I am Princes April Arreza, science education advocate and your host. Please join me as I converse with different distinguished personalities in the field of science. It is recommended by the National Center for Improving Science Education that schools should design curricula that give focus on the conceptual framework of science curriculum. These are the nine basic scientific concepts. Today, we will be meeting some experts in science education as they explain to us the important features of 5 of these basic scientific concepts. We will be reserving the rest of these concepts on our next episode with different set of experts. Now, let us not wait any longer. Well jump in to our discussion for today. Allow me first to introduce our first guest. A Master of Science Education and an outstanding secondary educator from Quary -1 Integrated School. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jhun Mark Andoyo. Princess: Welcome to our show Teacher Jhun Mark. It is a pleasure to meet you. Jhun Mark: Thank you for inviting me here. Princess: Now tell me, what subjects are you teaching at your assigned school? Jhun Mark: I taught Science, Math, and MAPEH subjects. Princess: That’s nice. Now, let’s focus on biology. Do you know what is organization? Jhun Mark: The meaning of the term “organization” is very simple. It means the state wherein things are organized and arranged in a particular manner. That’s the “general” sense of the term. In science, “organization” is defined as the arrangement of parts for the performance of functions that are essential for life. Princess: Very well said. The next question is what are thelevels of biological organization? Jhun Mark: Biology is the study of life. Since life is such a broad topic, scientists break it down into several different levels of organization to make it easier to study. These levels start from the smallest unit of life and work up to the largest and most broad category. The levels, from smallest to largest, are molecule, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere. Princess: Why do you think it is important for you to study the levels of biological organization? Jhun Mark: I think it is important for us to study the levels of biological organization, to know where these organisms belong, in what environment they prosper or what are the characteristics that made these animals like each other. Princess: The last question, if you will relate biology to teaching, what are the benefits of good organization? Jhun Mark: Children like a predictable, safe, and orderly environment—and they like going to a school that provides that environment. For these reasons alone, it behooves any teacher to pay close attention to good organization. Aside from the benefits to students, good organization brings powerful help to the teacher. Princess: Thank you so much Teacher Jhun Mark. I learned a lot from you today. Jhun Mark: Thank you for the opportunity to become a guest of your talk show. Thank you so much. Princess: It’s a pleasure. Thank you for joining us today. Now it said that evolution or change is inevitable in our natural world. The universe is constantly changing. To elaborate to us the concept of change, we have now another science educator from Tidman National High School. Ladies and gentlemen, Ms Apple Jhelyn B. Pineda. Hi teacher apple! Apple: Hi Princess, it’s nice to see you again. I’m good! Honestly, I feel very excited being here today to talk about significant things because you know, some things change while others stay the same. Princess: Now that you mentioned.. I’d like to ask from an educator’s point of view like you. can you tell me your thoughts about change? Apple: Well Princess, cliché as it may sound but it is true that change is the only permanent thing in the world. The natural world is constantly changing and while some changes are quite obvious like burning of paper, stretching of a rubber band and blowing of balloons, others can take time to notice like rusting of iron, ripening of fruits and growing of trees. Princess: right. And change is considered a scientific concept. I think our audience would like to know, on what scales do changes occur that considers it a scientific concept? Apple: That’s a good question. Ecosystems are continuously altered by natural circumstances and human-induced factors. Climate change may operate on a global or large scale , political change may operate at the scale of a nation or a municipal district. Socio-cultural change typically occurs slowly, on a time scale of decades, while economic changes tend to occur more rapidly. Princess: so what are the most critical factors causing ecosystem changes? Apple: well we have some important factors to note. First is population change Second, we have change in economic activity Lastly, science and technology. Princess: thanks for sharing your thoughts about CHANGE teacher apple. Apple: the pleasure is mine Princess. Thanks for having me on your show. Enjoy the rest of the day! Princess: Now let’s talk about cause and effect. We have with us an educator from Binucayan National High School., Ms. Yassie Ruth Ague. How are you Ms Ague? Yassie: I’m doing great Princes. I hope you are too! Thank you for giving me this opportunity to be part of this talk show. Princes: I am indeed Maam. Talking about cause and effect, can you tell me what’s this concept all about? Yassie:Nature behaves in predictable ways. Searching for explanations is the major activity of science. As we all know, effects will not occur without causes. Things happen for a reason, therefore, there is a cause for every effect. Science seeks to explain and understand the natural world exactly. In science, the cause explains why something happens. The effect is the description of what happened. Princes: I agree Maam. Can you give us an example of cause-and-effect relationship? Yassie: Causes produce effects, and we tend to find in sciences that some underlying cause produces patterns of results. For example, In the summerwe often discover a nice breeze blowing in from the water at the beach. There is a pattern here. What causes it to happen? The sun heats the ground, making the air less dense.Air that is less dense rises. As the temperature rises, cool ocean air is drawn in to replace it. Another feature of cause-and-effect interactions is highlighted in this example. Proving cause-and-effect requires careful scientific effort, and there must be some mechanism or chain of events connecting the cause and effect. Princes: Very well said! What is the importance of the cause-and-effect concept in science? Yassie: Cause and effect are important concepts in science as science seeks to create explanations and solutions. This helps to explain why events happened in the first place. Princes: I have one last question Maam. How can we teach cause-and-effect concepts to students? Yassie: It’s helpful to use examples. You could also use photos, and read non-fiction texts and experiments. And with those ways, students could recognize causes-andeffects ofthe certain phenomena. Princes: Thank you so much Teacher Yassie for making clear to us how the cause-andeffect relationship is important in science. Yassie: It’s my pleasure Princes. And thank you for having me today. Princess: Our last scientific concept to be given focus for today is on variation. Well, to enlighten us with this scientific concept, we have with us Ms Abevel Arbiz, an expert educator from Zillovia National High School. Arbiz: Thank you Princess for having me today, and hello to our viewers who’s watching in their homes. Princess :It’s still a confusion to some of our viewers how organisms of the same kind still differs from one another. Please make us understand the concept of variationin science in a simple context. Arbiz:Well, Princess, for us to get a good understanding of evolution, we need to understand first what is variation.Variation is easy to understand.It just means that the individuals in a population whether that be plants or animals are all different from each other. They all vary. And we can see that just by looking around you. Everybody’s faces are different. Everybody is unique. And it’s not just the outside but also in the inside. Look closely to the same specie and you can see that they are slightly different from one another. An example of variation is light green to dark green. Now, in biology,it is any difference between cells, individual organisms or group of organisms of any species caused either by genetic differences (genotypic variation) or by the effect of environmental factors or the expression of what we called the genetic potentials (phenotypic variation). For example, humans have different coloured eyes and dogs have different tail lengths. This means that no two members of a species are identical. Princess: What could be the major causes or sources why variation happens ? Arbiz: Well, the major causes include mutations ,gene flow and sexual reproduction.In DNA mutation, it causes genetic variation by altering the genes of individuals in a population.Gene flow leads to genetic variation as new individuals with different gene combinations migrate into a population, while in Sexual reproduction, it promotes variable gene combinations in a population leading to genetic variation. Princess.: Does variation in science comes only on one basis or type? Arbiz: No. Actually we have two types of variation. The what we called continuous variation and discontinous variation, where surveys of continuous variation gives us results that come in a range .For example is the Human height ,while discontinuous variation give us values that come in groups rather than a range. So example of that is the Human blood groups. Princess: That was so informative Ms Arbiz. Thank you so much for that exposition. We really appreciate the presence of our four brilliant guests in the field of science education. They talked to us about the some basic scientific concepts. The rest of these concepts will be discussed in out next episode of scied talk. I hope you guys learned a lot from our guests today. Thank you so much for being with us from the beginning up to the end of this virtual conference. Indeed in this show, set of scientific information in the real world, accessed and exposed in the technological arena. I am Princes April Arreza, and this is SciEd Talk. Have a great day everyone!