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Aim
- Your teacher will tell you the purpose or aim of the investigation.
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Information
- You should already know something about the topic you are investigating and
- you can do some research for your homework.
- Although you may not get any marks for this section, if you do not know anything about
the topic you will be unable to write a sensible hypothesis.
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Hypothesis
- This should have two parts to it:
- Predict what will happen in your experiments
- Explain why you think your prediction is right. (do make this scientific)
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Apparatus
- Just write a list of what you need.
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Method
- You should list the variables which are important in this investigation
- the "independent variable" (the one you are testing)
- the "dependent variable" (the one you are measuring)
- the "controlled variables" (all the other variables must be kept constant)
- Your instructions should be clear enough for another pupil to do the experiment.
- Remember to include the safety instructions.
- If there is nothing dangerous, say so.
- Remember that it must be a fair experiment
- explain how you are going to make it fair.
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Results
- You will probably have a table of results and
- some charts or graphs to show what happened
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Discussion
- Make sure that you write down what the charts and graphs show even if you think it is
obvious.
- Say whether your prediction was true or false
- Explain what happened in the experiment.
- Say how accurate your experiment was
- Write down any improvements which you can think of.
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