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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


Friday, 14 October 2016

State of matter Discussion Doc

Discussion Doc  States of matter

Task
Work on this Doc together with a partner or in a 3.


Give three examples of each state of matter?
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Rock
Fizzy
Air
Ice
Water
Steam
Table
Boiling water
Mist

What’s the difference between the three states of matter?
Solids
Liquids
Gases
Ice
Water
Steam  

Write 3 sentences explaining something new you learned from this reading.
The three things I have learnt were the tiniest thing is made out of matter ,matter is everything around u and every little bit of the galaxy and stars have matter in it