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conducting Inquiry Investigations
conducting Inquiry Investigations
- Ask Questions: Brainstorm a list of all possible questions that come to mind
- Identify them as Open or Close ended (those which can have a Yes/No answer), as well as whether they are testable or not
- Hone in on one question that interests you, and is testable (you can gather data to provide evidence to back or refute the claim you are testing)
- Background Research: Look at existing knowledge or studies by other scientists as background research
- Generate a Hypothesis (If <your tentative explanation> is happening, then <prediction> must occur). This is your claim, your tentative explanation in response to the question you chose to study
- Plan the investigation
- Identify variables, experimental and control groups, constants
- Conduct the investigation, gather data
- Results: Organize the data and Analyze the results
- Consider - do the patterns in the data provide evidence to back the claim you make in your hypothesis? Why/ why not?
- If possible, do a statistical test on the data to see whether the hypothesis can be accepted
- Go back and ask more questions, revise hypothesis, repeat investigation as needed
- Discussion: Argue from evidence, Communicate your findings
- Explain how your investigation supports or refutes your claim
- Consider possible errors in the study - bias, human error, other
- Consider next steps - suggest ways to strengthen findings, further investigations
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