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Design Your Own Fair Test

Pick a question about everyday life, design a fair experiment to answer it, and present your results.

Grade 6ExperimentScience OlympiadScienceMathData AnalysisMeasurementLogicIntermediate60 to 90 min4 materialsAdult supervision required

What you'll learn

  • Write a testable question and hypothesis
  • Identify the independent, dependent and controlled variables
  • Draw a conclusion and name sources of error

Objective

Plan and run a complete fair test, from a testable question to a conclusion backed by data.

STEM concepts

Scientific methodVariablesControlsRepeated trials
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