Thursday, 12 May 2016

Natural Science


New things regarding natural science 

- How animals are used in research (advance scientific understanding,  to test models of disease, to develop and test potential forms of treatment etc)

- The role of convention in natural science (metric system, and the use of Latin and Greek)

- The age of Enlightenment and the scientific revolution 

- What effect Nicolaus Copernicus had on natural science (created the model of the universe)

Tuesday, 10 May 2016

Key elements of TOK

In order to provide a detailed and well presented TOK topic, these are the things that need to be included :

- Different perspectives (dentology, utilitarian, culture, ideology, religion)
- Defenition
- Compare and contrast
- Justifications through evidence
- Pros and cons
- "To what extent"
- Detailed account of a reason or a cause
- Breaking down information
- Creating arguments
- Hypothesis and conclusion
- Create relatable knowledge questions
- Evaluate sources
- Empirical evidence