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Investigating - Finding Out

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How can you answer questions in science? Some questions are too hard for you to answer but some are more simple. Where will you look for answers? How will you investigate your ideas? How can you test different materials? What can you use? There is often more than one way of answering a question in science. Using books and the internet to investigate is a good thing, but it is even better to do simple tests to find out for yourself, if you can.

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1 .

A class at school want to find out which habitat centipedes like best. They decide to look in different places.

They look under a large stone, in leaf litter, under a log, and under a hedge.

What should they count?

The number of mini-beasts

The number of centipedes

The number of woodlice

The number of beetles

Mini-beasts live in micro-habitats

2 .

Jack asks, ‘What is the best temperature to grow seeds?’

Jack puts the same seeds into four different pots.

He puts each pot in a different place. Which four places would be best?

On his table, on his friend’s table, in a fridge, in a freezer

Above a radiator, on his table, in the fridge, in a freezer

Above a radiator, above another radiator, on a window sill, in a freezer

On four tables round his classroom

Always ask before putting anything like pots or soil in a fridge or freezer!

3 .

Freddie asks, ‘When do frogs lay spawn?’ How can Freddie find out?

Check his local pond every week

Look it up in a book about frogs

Search for frogs on the internet

Use all three of the ways above

All three ways help Freddie to find out.

The frog in the picture is the red poison dart frog from Costa Rica

4 .

Anna has three materials: glass, polythene and wax. ‘Which material is the clearest?’ How can Anna find out?

Run water over them

Shine a light through them

Weigh them

Look in a book or on the internet

Anna needs to do an experiment to find out.

5 .

Natasha is keeping a weather diary. How can she record how much cloud there is every day?

Count the number of clouds

Write down the fraction of the sky covered by cloud

Write down the color of the clouds

Write down how often it rains

What fraction of the sky in the picture is covered by cloud?

6 .

Jacob wants to know which lumps of play dough are heaviest? What can he do?

Hold them in his hands

Measure how far across they are

Use a balance

See which one rolls furthest

A see-saw is a balance

7 .

Harry is building a model bridge. Should he use wood, metal or plastic? Which will be strongest? How he can he find out?

Test them with weights

See if he can stretch them

See if they burn

See if he can shine a light through them

Which do you think will be the strongest?

8 .

‘How do camels survive the heat of the Sahara Desert?’ How could you find out at school?

Heat sand on a tray

Look it up in a book or on the internet

Look in an atlas

Filter sandy water into a beaker

This one you will have to look up!

9 .

Toni is doing an investigation in her class. She wants to know which is the most popular color in the rainbow.

Toni paints this picture. Then she asks people: ‘Which color in the rainbow do you like best?’

Who should she ask?