Year 8 Science: Independent Investigation
Check Point 2
Use your Check Point 1 sheet and any suggestions your teacher or parents have made to complete the items
below.
1Use what you wrote for Q2 on CP 1 to formulate an aim for your investigation.
Aim: To …
2What do you think will happen in this experiment?
Write your prediction above in the form of an hypothesis. Remember an hypothesis is a testable
statement.
Example: “Year 8 girls at our school are on time for class more often than Year 8 boys at our school” is
a testable statement but “Girls are more punctual than boys” is not so easy to test because the term
‘punctual’ needs to be defined and also because the scope of ‘girls’ and ‘boys’ is very large.
Hypothesis:
3What materials and equipment will you need for your experiment. Fill in the table below.
Materials/equipment I will provide
Materials/equipment I need school to provide
4Consider the safety risks involved in completing your investigation. Complete the table below.
Safety Risk
Action to minimise risk
5Write a draft method for your investigation as a series of numbered steps in a logical order. Use impera-
tives that is, start each instruction with a verb (a doing word) like collect, put and measure.
Get feedback from your teacher on Check Point 2 before starting your experiments.