Year 12 · HSC / Investigating Science
Practice questions.
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Try this with Investigating Science
- Attempt a question independently and keep your original working.
- Mark the first point where your reasoning differs from the worked answer or criteria.
- Try a similar question and explain the step that changed.
Pick a starting point
- 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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