Controlling variables
Plan different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, recognising and controlling variables where necessary
Typical age: 9–11 years
“Can your child plan their own experiment from scratch — deciding what to test, what to measure, what to keep the same, and how many times to repeat it?”
0 / 3 mastered
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Needs first
- Using evidence to answer questions
Pattern identification supports planning targeted enquiries
- Fair testing (age 8+)REQUIRED
Must plan enquiries with variable control before running fair tests on prototypes
- Choosing a Strategy
Choosing an enquiry approach and evaluating whether it worked is the science form of the universal strategy-evaluation habit
- Fair testingREQUIRED
Must set up simple fair tests before independently planning enquiries with variable control
- Planning a Task
Planning a scientific enquiry is the domain-specific application of the universal task-planning habit