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Friday, 4 November 2016

Science Investigation - Fair testing

Science Investigation
Fair Testing
Fill out the following table to help you explain the Growing in the dark: Plants and light experiment

Aim - what are you trying to find out?
Do plants need sunlight to grow?
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?
Initially the dark cupboard plants go higher then the light plants
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?
One set will be in the sunlight and one set will be in the dark

Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?
The height of the plant
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?
The same amount of soil and seed

The students of Room 4 wanted to find out what colour of bird feeders birds preferred. FIll our the table below thinking of which variables you would make independent, dependent and controlled.


Aim - what are you trying to find out?
finding out what colour of bird feeders
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?
Of all the feeders, the birds will most prefer eating from the red feeder.
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?
The colour of the bird feeders
Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?
The number of birds that visit the bird feeder
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?
The type of seeds