Scientific Inquiry

What does a scientist do? This is the questions we have been considering this week. The answer is:
observe, draw, measure, sort into groups, compare, design tests and, most of all, they ask questions about things that interest them . This is what we have been doing this week. Each of us had a living thing that interested us and we did a lot of the things that a scientist would do. This personal inquiry time was very valuable and we all found a lot of pleasure in studying the living that interests us.

As well as that, we have also been learning about how to plan a great story. We took time to plan the introduction carefully, so that the setting and characters are really well described. These are going to take a while to write because we want them to be the very best they can be before we publish them

This weekend, students are asked to carry out a simple experiment at home, something relating to their little living thing. Please support by adding photographs to the Google document where possible. It would be great to see what everyone is doing this weekend.

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