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Grades 1 and 2 - Science - Elementary School - Investigating - Answering Questions
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In science you ask lots of questions. Then you plan how to answer them, or draw conclusions. You might investigate by observing or looking closely at things. Or you might investigate by doing a test or an experiment. You collect results or data. But what does the data mean? 

Grades 1 and 2 - Science - Elementary School - Investigating - Answering Questions
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1. Jacob looked at a tree and a wooden post. The tree grew in the spring and made new leaves. The wooden post did not grow. What has Jacob found out?
2. Isaac looked at different trees. He wrote down when the buds started to grow into leaves. Here are his results:

Ash - 4th May
Beech - 17th April
Oak - 8th May
Sycamore - 28th March

What has Isaac found out about when trees make leaves?
3. Emily’s teacher asked, ‘What makes play-dough so good for making models?’ Emily said:
4. Sally wants to find a good material for a pillow. She tests three materials. She asks 12 people in her class to say which one is the softest. Here are her results:

Feathers - 7
Foam - 3
Wool - 2

What has Sally found out?
5. Jamie asked, ‘Which oranges are juiciest?’ He got three different oranges. He squeezed them and measured how much juice there was. To make it a fair test, Jamie made sure that the oranges were:
6. Harry asked, ‘Which has more legs, a spider or a fly?’ He looked it up. He found out that spiders have 8 legs, and flies have 6 legs. What is the answer to Harry’s question?
7. Rhea asked, ‘What shape is the Moon?’ Rhea knows that the Moon changes shape. The Moon looks different on different days. But what shape is the Moon?
8. Marco asked, ‘What lives in rock pools?’ How could he find out?
9. Ben asked, ‘Do taller flowers have more petals?’ Ben decided to measure two things about each flower. What were the two things?
10. Anna and Freddy wanted to know which material was stretchiest? Which one of these do you think was stretchiest?