Activity: Question generation

Working Scientifically Skills

Experimental skills and investigations

• ask questions and develop a line of enquiry based on observations of the real world, alongside prior knowledge and experience

Analysis and evaluation

• identify further questions arising from their results

Third Level Scientific Skills

Inquiry and Investigative Skills:

Plans and designs scientific investigations and enquiries:

• Demonstrates initiative and increasing independence in identifying a number of key questions and in formulating aims, predictions and hypotheses based on information, observations and knowledge.

Presents scientific findings:

• Communicates effectively in a range of ways, for example, orally and through scientific report writing.

Curriculum Subject Links

• Overarching themes of Science, Technology and Design.

Curriculum Skill Links

• Listen to and take part in discussions, explanations, role-plays and presentations
• Contribute comments, ask questions and respond to others’ points of view
• Communicate information, ideas, opinions, feelings and imaginings, using an expanding vocabulary
• Planning for investigations, obtaining evidence, presenting and interpreting results
• Use investigative skills to explore scientific issues, solve problems and make informed decisions
• Show deeper scientific understanding by thinking critically and flexibly, solving problems and making informed decisions, using Mathematics and ICT where appropriate
• Work effectively with others