1.2 How science works – Practical and enquiry skills
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click1.2d Using investigative approaches: obtaining and presenting primary evidence |
| select appropriate ways of recording observations, e.g. when investigating the combustion of various materials, decide which observations are appropriate and how to tabulate them to make comparisons easier | make connections between the task and the gathering of data, e.g. if an environmental study is being conducted, it may be appropriate to count organisms or to estimate percentage cover within a quadrat |
| select appropriate terminology and structure for the description of evidence, e.g. to understand the difference between quantitative and qualitative data when studying a habitat | compare various forms of data display, e.g. to explain why comparing data about the various nutrients in different foodstuffs is easier from a table, a bar chart or a pie chart |
| recognise that the way data is displayed is important, e.g. when gathering evidence on variation between pupils in a class, comment on whether bar charts, histograms or line graphs make comparison easier
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| recognise patterns and trends in data, e.g. recognise trends in data when comparing the number and arrangement of components in a circuit with the current that is flowing | |
