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 light to grow?
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Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?
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The plant in the sun will grow with good health and the plant in the cupboard will grow but not with full pieces
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Independent Variable - what variable will you change?
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Both
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Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?
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The variable I will measure is the height of the plant
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Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?
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The same type of seeds, the same amount of water and the same type of soil
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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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What colour of bird feeders with the bird prefer?
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Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?
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From all the feeders, the birds will mostly 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 food
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Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?
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The number of birds that visit the feeder
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Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?
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The colour that the bird mostly prefer, The amount of the food that the bird normally get feeder
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