Simple tests and experiments

ScienceScientific InquiryAges 5–7

Perform simple tests and use observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions

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Practise the bounded task in Simple tests and experiments; see exact limits before inferring broader coverage.

Activity

Make a prediction and notice wet/dry; an adult handles the water.

Policy

Exact directed source edges retained; earlier authorship is not learner attainment.

Materials

These supplied stage cards
Scrap paper and pencil; oral/pointing response where appropriate
Two different paper materials cut/torn to equal squares, spare scrap, clean room-temperature water, dropper or consistent small spoon, tray, adult supervision. If unavailable, mark planning only.

Sequence

Read readiness and decide on support without treating prerequisite authoring as learner readiness.
Open Show first and explain its model.
Use Guided Try with support and its separate adult key.
Close Show and guided keys before Try, unless this Try is explicitly supported.
Reflect on an actual attempt, including help used.

No Printer

Use the supplied screen cards; copying the exact task to paper is optional, not required.

Privacy

Use only invented scenarios and optional anonymous local notes. Do not request names, photos, family finances, medical data, accounts or uploads. Stop uncomfortable physical activity.

Use the complete materials on screen or print only the current sheet. Keep adult guidance out of learner view. Retain an earlier model only when the current step supplies it as context.

Teaching limits and safe use

These are finite task opportunities, not proof of mastery. Record what was attempted and what support was used.

Requires real supervised observation; without materials, planning only, not a performed experiment. Drop counts are approximate, not volume measurements.

Use only invented scenarios and optional anonymous local notes. Do not request names, photos, family finances, medical data, accounts or uploads. Stop uncomfortable physical activity.

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Check understanding

Carry out a simple test with one thing changing at a time
Observe what happens and describe the result
Use the result to suggest an answer to the original question

“Can your child do a simple experiment — like testing which paper towel absorbs the most water — and use what they find out to answer the question?”

Curriculum record

Type: Procedural
Subject: Science
Domain: Scientific Inquiry
Age range: Ages 5–7

Standards

uk-nc-2013:KS1.Sci.WS.3uk-nc-2013:KS1.Sci.WS.5