Category: Science
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PSLE Science Reality Lab Vol No.065 | “Open Data Available” — Does That Mean the Result Has Already Been Reproduced?
A massive Primary 5/6 Reality Lab guide to open scientific data: why making data available improves transparency, what another person can actually check, and why rerunning the same data is not the same as collecting new evidence.
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PSLE Science Reality Lab Vol No.064 | “The Data Were Adjusted” — What Was Changed, and Why?
A massive Primary 5/6 Reality Lab guide to adjusted scientific data: why measurements may be corrected for known non-target shifts, how raw and adjusted records differ, and what evidence makes an adjustment trustworthy.
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PSLE Science Reality Lab Vol No.063 | “Vegetation Health Index” — Did the Satellite Measure Plant Health Directly?
A massive Primary 5/6 Reality Lab guide to scientific proxies: how a satellite vegetation index begins with reflected light, what it can reveal, what it cannot measure directly, and how to test a health claim.
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PSLE Science Reality Lab Vol No.062 | “30 m Resolution” — Does One Pixel Describe a Single Point or a Whole Patch?
A massive Primary 5/6 Reality Lab guide to spatial resolution: what a satellite pixel represents on the ground, what smaller features can disappear inside it, and how far a map can support a scientific claim.
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PSLE Science Reality Lab Vol No.061 | “Near Real-Time Data” — Is This the Final Science-Quality Result?
A massive Primary 5/6 Reality Lab guide to near-real-time scientific data: distinguish speed and freshness from later calibration, quality control and science-quality replacement products.
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PSLE Science Reality Lab Vol No.060 | “10,000 Sightings on the Map” — Did People Look Equally Everywhere?
A massive Primary 5/6 Reality Lab guide to crowdsourced science maps: separate where organisms were reported from where people actually looked before turning sightings into a distribution claim.
