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- Subject: Science
- AS: AS90312
- Level: 2
- Credits: 4
- Internal
Science 2.1 Carry out a practical scientific investigation with supervision
Sites for revision
Check out these guidelines to plan a practical investigation, collect and process data, and interpret the findings:
Planning experimental procedure
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, design the method, and write a plan. Suitable for NCEA level two.
Investigations in science
This website presents a booklet that aims to improve your investigations in Science. It covers information about how to state the aim of the investigation, identifying relevant variables and controls, measurement of variables, making a hypothesis, planning the procedure and apparatus, carrying out the practical work safely, recording results, presenting results as a graph, looking for patterns and making a conclusion. Suitable for NCEA level two.
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 level one.
