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Investigative Skills

Investigative Skills. This document can be freely copied and amended if used for educational purposes. It must not be used for commercial gain. The author(s) and web source must be acknowledged whether used as it stands or whether adapted in any way.

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Investigative Skills

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  1. Investigative Skills This document can be freely copied and amended if used for educational purposes. It must not be used for commercial gain. The author(s) and web source must be acknowledged whether used as it stands or whether adapted in any way. Download 2b ‘Investigative skills’ Authored by Keith Ross University of Gloucestershire accessed from www.ase.org.uk/sci-tutors date created February 2006

  2. ask questions hypothesise/test/interpret observation sorting control of variables fair tests quantitativestandard measure qualitative measure non standard measure discrete or continuous variables categoric variables teacher led teacher supported pupil led Progression in Sc1

  3. Sc1 SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY • Ideas and evidence • Investigative skills • Planning • Obtaining and presenting evidence • Considering evidence and evaluating

  4. Sc1 SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY • Approaches to investigations, e.g: • Observation – particularly appropriate for foundation and key stage one to give pupils experiences of new phenomena • Fair testing / control of variables for cause and effect • Survey – e.g. many biological topics • Research

  5. Brainstorm Things I could change or vary Things I could measure or observe

  6. Deciding what to dochoosing variables I will Change I will measure(observe) I will keep these the same

  7. My QuestionAsking a question When I Change What will happen to ?

  8. What I think may happenPredicting When I change (What I Change) I think (What I measure or observe)

  9. What happenedTable of results What I Changed What I measured

  10. My GraphGraph of Results What I measured What I changed

  11. Finding patterns in results What happened to (what I measured) When I changed (what I changed)

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