FIGURE 1.

Venn diagram of the scientific process representing the overlapping ideas of the NOS, experimental design, and the scientific method. This diagram shows a holistic view of the scientific process. The scientific process contains the ideas of the NOS, experimental design, and the scientific method. The NOS is a description of science as a way of knowing, how science is conducted, and the everyday aspects of the influences of science (University of California Museum of Paleontology, 2012; NGSS Lead States, 2013). Experimental design is the systematic approach to develop experiments that will gain interpretable understanding of the problem or question the experiment addresses (Sirum and Humburg, 2011). The ideas of the scientific method completely overlap with the NOS, experimental design, or both.