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By sharing your ideas in the learning forum and refining your notes you will have identified a range of issues associated with helping students plan experiments.

We are now going to spend some time considering the fundamental elements which might provide an approach for teaching and/or learning how students can plan experiments.

Take some time to read and review the information below. It should help you to understand where you can start to focus your planning for this element and which parts of the syllabus work well for developing student skills in this area.

  •  Download Getting started with helping students to plan experiments (PDF, 109.5KB)



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Reflect

As you review the information, reflect on the following questions and make some notes in your reflective journal. 

  • Has the information made you think differently about teaching students how to plan experiments? Explain why or why not. 
  • How will you use the information to support how you teach your students how to plan experiments?


In the next section, we will consider the knowledge and skills required for understanding how to teach students how to plan experiments.