Students formulate hypotheses related to an overall question or challenge and refine their hypotheses based on context and target group.
This method helps students develop their skills in creating and improving hypotheses for further investigation.
Formulate, or ask the students to formulate, an overarching question or challenge they want to investigate.
Students share experiences and insights related to the question. If they don’t have personal experiences, they can gather information using the internet or by conducting small experiments.
They formulate their experiences and gathered knowledge into hypothetical “if…, then…” statements. In this way, students develop hypotheses about what they think will happen and why.
They rephrase and improve each hypothesis to make them more concrete. The students do this by specifying the location (where), target group (who), and other parts of the hypothesis.
Students can then create a simple plan for how they will test their hypothesis. Which observations and measurements will they make, and how will they carry these out in practice?
Students can optionally identify variables that will affect their hypothesis:
– Independent variables: Factors they change
– Dependent variables: Factors they measure
– Control variables: Factors that must be kept constant
This method is used in activity XXX
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