Yr 8 Inquiry in Science – Friction
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Draft 1 has been completed and sent to Nayan (Head of KS3 Science) and Jenny (librarian) for their thoughts. I didn’t set out to produce a booklet, but it has sort of ended up that way. I was rather pleased with how easily the CREST and other materials we have developed (available in the FOSIL Resources section) have been to adapt.
My aim has been to shift the purpose of the task away from the production of a final project (Express) and towards the steps involved in carrying out an inquiry in science to answer a particular question (investigate and Construct) whilst using most of the existing teaching materials. This inquiry is designed to follow on from a ‘follow the recipe’ class experiment on how friction changes as the mass of an object changes in a previous lesson, which acts as a pilot too.
One thing I’m wrestling with at the moment is where the evaluation of data and method fits into the inquiry cycle. I’m not sure whether it falls into the reflection stage or not. It either fits really well, and is a really sensible way for reflection to occur in science inquiries, or it’s a really bad fit; there is no middle ground!
I’ve uploaded my first draft of the first page and evaluation pages, which I think may change a bit before we have something ready to roll out to other Year 8 teachers.
My next stage is to act on the feedback from colleagues and to use Elizabeth Hutchinson’s template to produce an overview of the resource and where it fits in to the topic.
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