Science investigation Fair test

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 sunlight to grow
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?	Initially the dark cobad plants will grow higher than the light plant’s
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?	Changing the sunlight
Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?	The height of the plant
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?	Type of seed and the same amount of soil

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

Aim - what are you trying to find out?	find out what colour of bird feeders birds preferred
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?	Of all the feeders, the birds will most prefer eating from the red feeder.
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?	The colour of the bird feeders
Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?	The number of the birds that visit the bird feeders
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?	The type of seeds