IDS 100 Lenses Chart Template (5) final copy PDF

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IDS 100 Project 1: Lenses Chart Template Prompt: To help guide your exploration of the four liberal arts lenses, you will complete the following lenses chart. You will use the information you gather in this chart on Projects 2 and 3, the KWL chart and the presentation. After exploring each liberal arts lens, complete the associated column in the table below. Be sure that you are making notes about the lens, not about the subject of the articles you reviewed (air pollution). The goal is to capture the main characteristics of each lens in the chart to help you see the similarities and differences between the lenses, and to also gain an understanding of how professionals in each field approach finding information. Aspects of the Lens Key Characteristics What are some characteristics?

Types of Questions What questions would a professional from this lens ask when studying a topic?

Types of Evidence How do professionals from each lens gather information? What sources are they using? (primary vs. secondary sources)

Commonalities & Differences How are any of the above lenses (social science, natural science, history and humanities) similar to each other? How are any of the lenses different from each other?

Social Science Sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, political science, and history are all disciplines that research human culture and individual relationships within it. What criteria do we use to decide what is "right" for society? What behavioral changes are needed to improve our future? Interviews and statistical data are examples of primary sources.

Natural Science Scientific experience focused on natural world observation. Natural science covers areas such as chemistry, geology, biology, and physics.

History The analysis of how science progresses.

What is the way the world works?

What happened, and why did it happen?

What transpired as a What approaches can be used to evaluate a theory? result of the occurrence? Data testing, analysis, studies, and laboratory findings are examples of primary sources.

Documents and objects are primary sources.

Literature reviews, Reviews, papers, and bibliographies, journals, scholarly books are and publications are examples of secondary examples of secondary sources, which include secondhand knowledge sources. and analysis from others. Commonalities (You may add additional bullets as needed) • Quantitative and qualitative analysis approaches are used in social science a • People and societies are the subject of social science, humanities, and histo • The humanities and social sciences are concerned with human issues. Differences (You may add additional bullets as needed) • To collect data, social science and natural science use different methods and • In comparison to natural science, where a controlled environment can be us research, social science research is exceedingly difficult to perform in a cont • Natural science studies the physical and natural environment, while social s nature. • In natural science, a hypothesis may be checked repeatedly and still yield th

more complicated in social science....