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3-4 Lens Chart Project Christina Sprague Southern New Hampshire University

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?

Social Science In social science the focus is on a person's individual and group behaviors in different kinds of settings. Social science uses methods and techniques to gather primary sources of data. Social science will possible not always be a reliable source of information.

Types of Questions What questions would a professional from this lens

What causes a virus to be contagious? How is it spreadable?

Natural Science Natural Science focuses on the physical and the natural world. Studies living organisms. With natural science theories are repeatedly tested to confirm data is completely accurate. There is not denying the facts with natural science. Natural science uses the scientific method: Observation,Research, Hypothesis ,Experiment, and Conclusion. What's there? How does it work?

History History helps us appreciate our advantages in society by studying the past events, journals, documents, and letters.

Humanities Humanities Lens includes the study of languages, ethics, and the arts from different cultures around the world.

History allows us to solve problems we have in the present time by looking in the past.

Humanities Lens can tell us where we have been and where we are going with our life.

History Lens shows us how everything around us, including ourselves evolve over time.

Humanities Lens helps us identify similarities and differences between cultures around the world.

Why did it happen?

Why is it important to know other languages and cultures?

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?

Why do women workers make less than men workers?

How did it come this way?

How do we know these things? What actually happened?

How do we know what is good for society? Is social media corrupting the people of society?

How will advances in technology affect our society in the future? Observations

Maps

Artifacts

Biographies

Scholarly books

Letters

Societies culture

Books

Artifacts

Photos

Religion

Journals

Interviews

Testimonies

Politics

Letters

This lens uses primary sources to gather information.

This lens uses both primary and secondary sources to gather information

Economics

This lens uses both primary and secondary sources to gather information.

This lens uses both primary and secondary sources to gather information.

Commonalities (You may add additional bullets as needed) ● Humanities and social science deal with human aspects, for example: politics, law, economics, psychology. ● Both natural and social science gather information to understand the world we live in, ● Both natural and social science use theories, hypothesis, and testing. ● Both natural and social science answer old questions so we can form new questions. ● All four study the differences and similarities in human society. Differences (You may add additional bullets as needed) ● Humanities take a more critical approach and social science deals with a more scientific approach. ● History and Humanities doesn’t really have any differences. They both study the development of human culture. ● Natural science deals with the study of nature, while social science deals with the study of human behavior....