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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

Social Science

Natural Science

History

Key Characteristics

Study society

Study the natural world

Study artifacts

What are some characteristics?

Improve lives

Use the scientific method

Study past events

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)

Humanities Study how we process experiences Understand culture

Understand people How do our choices affect the outcome of events?

What experiments can we perform to test our hypothesis?

How can working together benefit our choices?

How did we conclude these results?

Primary Sources:

Primary Sources:

Primary Sources:

Primary sources:

Official records

Experiment results

Books

Art

Original documents

Data testing

Artifacts

Photos

Articles

Literature

When did this event take place?

Will these people work well together?

How can we look at past events to help us today?

What is their culture? How can we help lives?

How did this happen?

Secondary Sources:

Secondary Sources:

Photos

Scientific reviews

Secondary Sources:

Secondary Sources:

Speeches

Experiments in scientific journals

Historians do not use secondary sources

Are not used

Reports

interviews

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?

Commonalities (You may add additional bullets as needed) ● ● ●

Both social and natural science lens show cause and effect. History and humanities lens study the past the affect the present Natural science and history lens help us understand the world today

Differences (You may add additional bullets as needed) ● ● ●

Natural science shows us how things work, and history shows us when they began Humanities uses critical thinking and social science uses the scientific method History studies who, when and why and humanities studies the impact on cultures...