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- Subject: Biology
- AS: AS90713
- Level: 3
- Credits: 4
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Biology 3.1 Carry out a practical investigation into an aspect of an organism's ecological niche with guidance
Sites for revision
Check out these guidelines to plan a practical investigation, collect and process data, and interpret the findings:
Planning Experimental Procedures
This website has information that will help you design a plan for a practical investigation or experiment. It gives information to get you started, about variables, how to make a prediction using a graph and mathematically modelling, design the method with consideration to accuracy, and write a plan. Suitable for NCEA level 2.
http://www.8886.co.uk/plan.htm
Science Fair Central: Scientific Method
This website explains and illustrates the basic steps of the scientific method, the 'tool' used in practical investigations to discover the answer to a scientific problem. Suitable for NCEA.
http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/
scifairstudio/handbook/scientificmethod.html
Scientific Writing
This website shows how to plan an investigation, collect and process data, and interpret the findings. This site has a particularly helpful section on experimental errors (how to avoid and how to identify).
http://www.lv.psu.edu/jxm57/irp/sciwrit.html
