Communicate a problem, design, and solution. People have always had questions about their world. Science is one way of answering questions and explaining the natural world. Scientists and engineers often work in teams with different individuals doing different things that contribute to the results. Women and men of all ages, backgrounds, and groups engage in a variety of scientific and technological work.
Tools help scientists make better observations, measurements, and equipment for investigations.
They help scientists see, measure, and do things that they could not otherwise see, measure, and do. Resources are things that we get from the living and nonliving environment to meet the needs and wants of a population. Environments are the space, conditions, and factors that affect an individual's and a population's ability to survive and their quality of life. Changes in environments can be natural or influenced by humans. Some changes are good, some are bad, and some are neither good or bad.