One of the most important goals of

One of the most important goals of science education is to teach students how to get involved in inquiry. In other
words, students should integrate skills, knowledge, and attitudes to develop a better understanding of scientific
concepts. So teachers must focus on teaching science skills such as facts, concept and theories, to encourage students
through scientific investigation. Science process skills are a necessary tool to produce and use scientific information,
to perform scientific research, and solve problems (Aktamis &Ergin, 2008). Colvill and Pattie (2002) postulated that
the activities which consist of basic and integrated process skills are the key factor of scientific / science literacy and
the key dimension of scientific / science literacy. Padilla (1990) classified these skills as basic and integrated due to
their usage according to students progressional phases. According to Skamp (1988) basic science process skills such
as observing, using numbers and classifying are the foundation for the acquisition of integrated science process skills.
Both basic and integrated scientific skills are important in any scientific investigation such as conducting projects
and carrying out experiments.
Science process skills are known as procedural skills, experimental and investigating science habits of mind or
scientific inquiry abilities (Harlen, 1999). Appropriate selections of science process skills can be taught and studied
in the early years of primary school the basic skills considered as prerequisite to learning the Integrated skills. The
young students can be given the opportunity to observe, handle things and explore the environment (Ango, 2002).
Chiappetta and Koballa, (2002) classified basic and integrated scientific skills as follows: