Planning & Carrying Out Investigation Flashcards
Give a brief explanation on step 1 “identify a topic”
Describe your observation or what your investigation is about.
How many steps are there to following an observation?
What are they called?
7
- Identify a topic
- Ask questions
- Make a prediction
- Plan the investigation
- Collect & record data.
- Draw conclusions
- Evaluate & communicate
Give explanation on step 2 “ ask questions such as….”
How does? OR what happens? OR why?
Give an explanation on step 3 “make a prediction”
This is what you guess the end result will be. They do not have to be correct.
What is another word for result of your observation.
Hypothesis
Give an explanation on “plan the investigation”
List the materials and equipment you will need.
Write down step by step method
Identify your variables
Make sure your investigation is a fair test.
Give an explanation on step 5 “collect & record data”
The observations, facts or measurements you collect during your investigation is called Data. Data is recorded in graphs or tables.
Give explanation of step 6 “draw conclusions”
Make sense of the data you recorded. It is the final answer to your question. Your conclusion says whether your prediction was correct or not
Give explanation of step 7 “Evaluate & communicate
Identify any problems you had in the investigation. Try find ways to solve them.
What are variables?
Factors that can affect the result in an investigation
What is a fair test?
When we test everything the same way.
What is data?
Information collected in an investigation
What is conclusion?
Something you decided based on the result of your investigation
What is evaluate?
Look at what you have done and think of ways to do it better next time.
What are factors?
Things that play a role in a result.
