NCERT Solutions for Curiosity Chapter 1 Exploring the Investigative World of Science

About this chapter

Grade 6 showed us that science begins with wonder ; Grade 7 showed us that science keeps evolving . Grade 8 puts the two together and takes us into the investigative world of science — we no longer only learn new facts, we learn how to find new facts . Investigation means more than looking and asking simple questions. You ask a focused question , design a simple experiment to answer it, and then use your own observations to improve your understanding. The chapter is a guided tour of the whole year — microorganisms in a drop of water, staying healthy with food, exercise, medicines and vaccines; the heating and magnetic effects of electric current; force, pressure, winds and cyclones; the particles that make up matter; elements, compounds, mixtures and solutions; reflection, mirrors and lens

• Chapter opening
• Entering the Investigative World of Science
• A tour of the year
• Phases of the Moon and the first calendars
• Thinking like a scientist
• Keeping notes, and the new questions an experiment raises