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Our research – Natural sciences
Science, biology, chemistry, physics... school subjects that teach us about our environment, about life of plants and animals, about energy, light, structure of substances, matter... Natural sciences seek to understand how the world and universe around us work. There are five major branches: chemistry, astronomy, earth science, physics and biology.
105 seventh graders from 7. a, 7. b, 7. c, 7. d and 7. e answered the following questions The research was carried out and analysed by EE journalists in December 2016.
A QUESTIONNAIRE 1. Do you like science / biology? Yes No IDK 2. Do you like chemistry? Yes No Maybe 3. Do you like physics? Yes No IDK 4. Which is the easiest to learn? ______________________________________ 5. Which is the hardest and why? ______________________________________ 6. Is it important who teaches you?
_____________________________________________________________________ 7. Can you remember the formulas and the names of the elements? Yes No 8. Do you like doing experiments? Yes No IDK 9. Do you prefer field work to learning in the lab? Yes No IDK 10. Is anybody in your family professionally connected with natural sciences? Who? ________________________________________________________________________
11. Would you like to study natural sciences and be a scientist? |
Yes |
No |
IDK |
12. Which scientist do you admire and why? |
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_________________________________________________________________________ How about you?