Year 3, Term 3: Questioning and predictingFocus: HypothesesScope and sequence: If-then statements |
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Learning intention: Students plan and conduct scientific investigations to answer questions using representations of data. |
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NSW Syllabus
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Australian Curriculum (version
9.0)
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"A
student questions, plans and conducts scientific
investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates
using scientific representations." (ST2-1WS-S)
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"Students
learn to pose questions to explore observed patterns and
relationships and make predictions based on observations."
(AC9S3I01)
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Introduction to the topic
Types of inquiry
Predictions and educated guesses
Hypotheses
https://study.com/learn/lesson/hypothesis-examples.html
If-then statements
An important part of hypotheses is the idea of if-then statements. This is an important concept which will be expanded in SILO 3.4 'Coding'. The following video (2:22) touches on if-then statements but only briefly.
A nervous experiment
Full details for this experiment can be found at https://askabiologist.asu.edu/experiments/nerves.
What you need:
The inverse square law
Static electricity
This video (2:08) includes a vivid example of how water
molecules are polarised.