Activity 1.3 - Planning an investigation

Learning Aims:

Here the focus lies on having the students state how they want to proceed. The aim is to make them think about a structured and logical plan how to conduct experiments. Furthermore, students learn how to define chemical terms.
Materials:

Instructions for this activity, paper and pencil, chemistry book, internet.
See classroom material Activity 1.3
Suggestions for use:

In their detective teams students can research, for example:

  • what “chemicals” are;
  • safety measures necessary for performing experiments (obligatory!);
  • what symbols there are to classify chemicals regarding their hazard (obligatory!);
  • what parents/friends think about using chemicals (doing interviews);
  • how chemicals can be classified according to their properties (colour, state of matter, ...) etc.