Science Investigation Fair Testing

Science Investigation

Fair Testing

Fill out the following table to help you explain the Growing in the dark: Plants and light experiment

Aim - what are you trying to find out?	Do plants need light to grow
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?	Some of the plant had grown and some had not
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?	The different can of lights.
Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?	We would measure how big the plant had grown.
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?	We would keep the seeds the same

The students of Room 4 wanted to find out what colour of bird feeders birds preferred. FIll our the table below thinking of which variables you would make independent, dependent and controlled.

Aim - what are you trying to find out?	What color would attract a bird
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?	My results would be some of the food would be gone and some won’t be gone.
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?	We will change the type of food in the bird feeders
Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?	We would measure how much the bird ate.
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?	We would wait for all the food to be gone.