Scientific investigation skills
BTEC: Applied Science: Scientific investigation skills
What you'll learn
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Imagine you're baking cookies 🍪. You try changing the oven temperature to see if they cook faster — that's a scientific investigation!
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In a fair test, how many things should you change at once?
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Drag the thermometer to set up your investigation — you're testing how temperature affects how fast sugar dissolves in water.
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Let's plan an investigation together: Does more light make plants grow taller?
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In the light experiment, what is the ONE thing you change?
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Now you plan it! Drag the items into the right boxes: things to CHANGE vs things to KEEP THE SAME.
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After your experiment, you write down your results. What do scientists call this step?
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