Practical resource: Scientific question criteria

This resource details scientific question criteria that can help students design an investigation that will allow them to contribute to scientific knowledge themselves.

By formulating small testable questions, they can then gather evidence to try and answer them.

Key Stage: KS3

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About this resource

Resource type: research guide
Theme: Working scientifically

Curriculum links
- England
  
  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
  
  make predictions using scientific knowledge and understanding
  
  Scientific attitudes
  
  pay attention to objectivity and concern for accuracy, precision, repeatability and reproducibility
- Scotland
  
  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.