KEY STAGE 3 Sc.1 INVESTIGATIONS

Name:___________________ Form: ______________ Date: ________________

The area of Science we are investigating is __________________________________

Planning

My challenge is to investigate:

A number of factors that could affect this, some of these are:

I am going to choose one of these to investigate.

I have decided to find out how the ________________________________affects the

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This is what I think will happen_____________________________________________

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I think that this will happen because _________________________________________

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To check this, during my investigation I will change ____________________________

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To see the effect of this change I will only need to measure/observe*____________________________________________________

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I know this test will be fair because I will keep these things the same

I do/do not need to repeat my measurements to make sure they are correct because _____

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I will use the following apparatus:

Name How many?

I will make it safe by _________________________________________________________

Diagram of the apparatus (set up).

KEY STAGE 3 Sc.1 INVESTIGATIONS

Name:___________________ Form: ______________ Date: ________________

The area of Science we are investigating is __________________________________

Observing (results)

This is what happened:

Table

What I changes	What I measured/Observed
(Input variable)	(Outcome variable)

KEY STAGE 3 Sc.1 INVESTIGATIONS

Name:___________________ Form: ______________ Date: ________________

The area of Science we are investigating is __________________________________

Analysising the results and conclusions

Graph
measured
(Outcome
variable)
	What	I	changed
	(Input	variable)

I have looked for a pattern in my results and found that as _________________

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then_________________________________________________________

This is/is not what I expected.

My explanation for this is __________________________________________

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I think that my investigation could be improved by _______________________

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Evaluating

I think that my experiment was/was not fair because _____________________

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I think that my experiment was / was not accurate because _________________

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