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Summary Slide

• Investigative Skills

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Investigative Skills

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• Download K1.2_2.0b Investigative skills
  Authored by Keith Ross University of
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• date created February 2006

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Progression in Sc1
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Sc1 SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY

• Ideas and evidence
• Investigative skills
• Planning
• Obtaining and presenting evidence
• Considering evidence and evaluating

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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

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Brainstorm
Things I could change or vary
Things I could measure or observe
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Deciding what to dochoosing variables
I will Change
I will measure(observe)
I will keep these the same
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My QuestionAsking a question
When I Change
What will happen to
?
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What I think may happenPredicting
When I change
(What I Change)
I think
(What I measure or observe)
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What happenedTable of results


What I Changed
What I measured
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My GraphGraph of Results
What I measured
What I changed
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Finding patterns in results
What happened to
(what I measured)
When I changed
(what I changed)
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