BTEC Applied ScienceYears 10–13Applied Science

Scientific investigation skills

BTEC: Applied Science: Scientific investigation skills

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine you're baking cookies 🍪. You try changing the oven temperature to see if they cook faster — that's a scientific investigation!

  2. 2

    In a fair test, how many things should you change at once?

  3. 3

    Drag the thermometer to set up your investigation — you're testing how temperature affects how fast sugar dissolves in water.

  4. 4

    Let's plan an investigation together: Does more light make plants grow taller?

  5. 5

    In the light experiment, what is the ONE thing you change?

  6. 6

    Now you plan it! Drag the items into the right boxes: things to CHANGE vs things to KEEP THE SAME.

  7. 7

    After your experiment, you write down your results. What do scientists call this step?

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