The word science was derived from
word “science” which means “knowledge”.
Abdulahi (2002) reported that some
people defined science as an organized body of knowledge in form of concepts,
laws and theories. He further explained science as activities culminating into
a testable, falsifiable and verifiable body of knowledge.
Generally, we can look at science as
a body of knowledge generated from the activities of man, in term of
formulating hypothesis designing, experiment and synthesizing theories based on
the ethnical rules of the stand and control nature.
Science can also be defined from the
sociological point of view as an intellectual through which man seeks to
understand the nature.
Ogunniyi (1986), defined science as
an attempt by human beings to organize their experiences about the nature of
science and scientific knowledge explosion, some scientists agitated that
science should be presented as an organic whole to a beginner; this led to the
formulation of agricultural science.
Integration of science means the
presentation of scientific knowledge to a beginner as organic whole rather than
in bit such as physics, chemistry or biology.
Bejah (2003) defined integration in
science as an approach to the teaching of science in which concept and
principles are presented so as to express the destructions between the various
scientific fields.
Integration in science therefore does
not note combination of the various branches of science rather it is a method
of teaching common appropriate to the generalization of scientific knowledge.
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