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?
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Do plants need sunlight to grow?
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Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?
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Initially the dark cupboard plants go higher then the light plants
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Independent Variable - what variable will you change?
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One set will be in the sunlight and one set will be in the dark
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Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?
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The height of the plant
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Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?
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The same amount of soil and seed
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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?
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finding out what colour of bird feeders
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Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?
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Of all the feeders, the birds will most prefer eating from the red feeder.
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Independent Variable - what variable will you change?
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The colour of the bird feeders
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Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?
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The number of birds that visit the bird feeder
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Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?
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The type of seeds
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