The Department of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley has produced a website that contains an extensive set of materials designed to explain the scientific process. Using a set of specific examples and increasingly complex versions of the circular diagram below, Understanding Science demonstrates how scientists engage in many different activities in many different sequences in their work, very often requiring social interactions.

Click on the image below for a 5-page introduction to the materials on the Understanding Science website:
Click here to access all materials on the Understanding Science website.