Year 12 · HSC / Investigating Science
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- Pick one topic and bring a question, an attempted answer or a short section of your notes.
- Write a goal you can check at the end, such as explaining a method or improving a response.
- Choose one independent follow-up task to try after working through the example.
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- What initiates an investigation: Marshall and Warren, Von Helmont and Spencer, and departures from the linear scientific method
- Choosing a methodology: Eratosthenes, Doppler, Priestley and Marshall and Warren, judged against the literature
- Writing a valid method: variables, controls, sample size, materials, ethics and time frame
- Validity, reliability and accuracy, drawing conclusions, and the structure of a scientific report
- Measuring technologies: accuracy, precision, resolution, data loggers, and analogue versus digital
- Random and systematic errors, uncertainty, and processing data into tables and graphs with lines of best fit
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