Science Forward is a skills-based course that focuses on scientific thinking in the context of a variety of different fields of science. We will focus on the specific skills that allow one to have good Science Sense. These skills fall into broad categories: Number Sense, Data Sense, and Knowledge Sense.

Science Sense is…

• being able to distinguish science from non-science.
• the ability to recognize how people collect and process facts into knowledge.
• the ability to recognize how a collection of facts becomes knowledge.
• being able to question and evaluate information that is presented as scientific.
• being an informed consumer, evaluator, and practitioner of science.