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Level

Activity

Skills - PUPILS ....

Links TO LESSON PLANS

A

Read story, ask questions

... respond to questions.

GROWING BEANS

B

Walk about, talk about

KWL Grid

  • suggest a question for exploration

  • suggest what might happen

  • recognise when a test is unfair

LIFE CYCLES

C

Oral planning

  • suggest a question to explore

  • order a sequence of activities or procedures for tackling task

  • suggest specific outcomes

  • make suggestions about how to make the test fair

PLANT GROWING CONDITIONS

D

Pupil groups


.... with input from the teacher

  • identify 2 or 3 questions to investigate

  • select equipment

  • give reasons for their decisions

  • plan a fair test

  • show awareness of the variables which could be changed

PULSE RATE

E

Group talk with teacher then each other.

  • decide on appropriate strategies for a given hypothesis

  • plan a valid and reliable test

  • pupils identify a number of key questions

GROWTH OF MOULD - E

F

Pupils make prediction

  • formulate a reasonable hypothesis

  • decide on appropriate strategies with due  attention given to fair testing

  • find out how one variable is dependant on another

 
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