Investigation Definitions

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Lesson idea. This is one of two lessons preparing students for their ISA exams but can be used more generally to help students with various aspects of a scientific investigation. This resource presents a number of activities to enable students to learn the definitions of scientific words associated with investigations e.g. precision, uncertainty and validity.

Teaching approach. Students are required to make use of a number scientific definitions as part of their Individual Skills Assessment (ISA) for GCSE. This resource uses the following activities in an attempt to liven up the teaching of these words:

• anagram activity
• card match activity
• Taboo game
• crossword

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Title	Scientific Definitions
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Learning Objectives	identify variables and form hypotheses plot continuous and categoric graphs
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Related ORBIT Wiki Resources	Hypothesis and Variables
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Files and resources to view and download	view lesson details on the Wiki: Investigation Definitions/Lesson Document download the document files: File:Continuous data.ppt, File:Poster template.pdf, File:Mixed data.pdf.
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