SCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS: Planning and Reporting worksheet Name: ..................................................... Others in my group: .....................................................
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What are you going to investigate?
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What do you think will happen and why?
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What variables are you going to:
. change?
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. measure?
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. keep the same?
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How will you make it a fair test?
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What equipment will you need?
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What happened? Describe your observations and record your results.
Could these results be represented on a graph?
Look at
your graph.What do your results tell you? Are there any patterns or
trends?
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Can
you explain these patterns, trends or relationships in your results?
Try
to use some science ideas to explain what happened.
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What did
you find out about the problem that you investigated?
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Was the
outcome different from your prediction?
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What difficulties
did you experience in doing this investigation and how could you improve
it if you repeated it?
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