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?	The plant in the sun will grow with good health and the plant in the cupboard will grow but not with the full pieces.
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?	I will have both plants have sun light so it can grow healthily.
Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?	The variable I will measure it the height of the plant.
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?	The same type of seeds the type of soil and the same amount of water used for the plants.

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?	To find out what colour of bird feeders with the birds prefer.
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?	From all the feeders  the birds will mostly prefer eating from the red feeder.
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?	The colour of the food.
Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?	Measuring how many visit’s the colour feeders get. After 5 days the colour feeder with the most visits are red.
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?	The colour that the birds mostly prefer. The amount of the food that the bird normally get feeded.