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Investigating - Finding Answers

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Scientists ask lots of questions. But then they have to investigate and try to find ways, or methods, of answering these questions. How would you go about answering questions in science? What method would you use? How would you measure it? How would you count it? This quiz looks into ways of investigating and finding answers in science.

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Tom wants to find out where snails like to live. What should he do?

Look in different places and count the number of snails

Look in one place and count the number of snails

Find a snail and count the number of rings on its shell

Find a snail and see where it goes

The more places you look, the better your results

Colors fade in the light. Lara wants to answer this question: ‘Which color fades quickest in sunlight?’

What should she do?

Hold 4 pieces of cloth up to the light

Pour water onto 4 different pieces of cloth

Put 2 different colors of cloth in a sunny window. After a month see which has faded most

Put 4 different colors of cloth in a sunny window. After a month see which has faded most

Testing 4 different colors is better than just 2

Ayisha wants to answer this question: ‘Do plants grow better in pink plant pots than brown plant pots?’ What should Ayisha do?

Test 4 brown pots and 1 pink pot

Test 1 brown pot and 4 pink pots

Test only pink pots

Test 4 brown pots and 4 pink pots

That makes it a fair test

Marco wants to know what most spoons are made from. He is going to count the number of metal, wood and plastic spoons. Where should he look?

At school

At home

In his classroom

At school and at home

The more places he can look, the better

Alex wants to find out how the weather changes through the year. What should she do?

Write a poem about the weather

Draw a picture of spring flowers

Keep a weather diary

Tick off the days on a calendar

What will Alex record in her weather diary?

Sarah wants to find the answer to this question: ‘How deep should I plant bean seeds?’

Sarah plants some bean seeds all at different depths in the soil.

How will she know which has grown best?

Wait for all the beans to come up

Count how many beans come up

Measure the height of each bean after a month

Only keep the first bean to come up, and throw the others away

The first bean to come up might not grow the tallest

Bella wants to know: ‘Are pencils alive?’ What should she do?

Try to feed a pencil

Put a pencil outside in the rain

Take a cutting of a geranium and see if that grows

Plant some pencils in soil and see if they grow

Pencils are made of wood. Pencils only ever get shorter!

Ella is investigating this question: ‘What is the best material for a bookshelf?’

What should she look for?

How transparent each material is

How absorbent each material is

How much each material bends when there are no books on it

How much each material bends with books on it

Which material are bookshelves usually made from?

Tanya has had a cold. She wants to answer this question: ‘Which type of tissue is most absorbent?’ What should she do?

Feel how rough each tissue is

Feel how soft each tissue is

Measure the length of each tissue

See how much water each tissue soaks up

A sponge is absorbent. It soaks up water

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Sam has decided to investigate: ‘Which is the stretchiest modeling clay?’

Sam has 6 different modeling clays. They are all the same length to start with. He pulls them all with the same force.

What does Sam need to measure now?