Year 10 Science

Week 11 (6th April – 9th April)

Science Skills 1:

Fully describe the trend shown in the graph

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Explain the trend shown in the graph
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 Time in minutes Volume of carbon
dioxide collected in
Science Skills 2 cm 3

0 0
Plot a graph of the 1 46
student’s results on the 2 70
grid below.
3 85
Label the x axis and 4 94
draw a line of best fit. 5 96
6 96
7 96

Fully describe the trend shown in the graph

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Science Skills 3:

A student investigated what happens when limestone is heated strongly.

This is the method the student used:
• measure the mass of limestone before heating
• measure the mass of solid product after heating
• repeat the experiment three more times.
The student’s results are shown in the table below.

State one control variable for the student’s investigation

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Calculate the average (mean) mass lost. Show your working and don’t forget
units
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Mean mass lost: _____________________
Which experiment was the most efficient? Explain your answer
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Suggest a possible reason for the student obtaining different results each time
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Science Skills 4:

Describe the pattern of her results

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State the independent variable for this investigation

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State the dependent variable for this investigation

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State one variable the student should have controlled.
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No matter how many sheets of paper the student puts between the magnets,
the force shown on the newton meter never reaches zero.
Explain why
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Science Skills 5:

How long do trials on humans take? ________________ years

How long do pre-clinical trials take? ________________ years
How long do phase 2 trials take? ________________ years
What is the minimum number of humans the drug is tested on
throughout clinical testing? __________________
Suggest why drugs are tested on animals before they are tested on humans?
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Suggest why some people object to testing new drugs on animals?
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Why are drugs always tested and monitored even after they have been
released to the public and put on sale?
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Science Skills 6:

Describe the method shown in the diagrams to

separate oil from seeds
Equipment list:

Method:
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Risk assessment
For every experiment you have
to do you need to do a risk
assessment.

You need to:

i) Identify the hazard

ii) Explain how it could be

dangerous.

Use the labels

iii) Explain how below
you willtoreduce
complete the table. Are there any others?
the risk.
 Experimental Method

Scientists test hypotheses – they find out whether changing one factor will affect another factor.

Once you have identified a question you can think about what the hypothesis would be and how to test
it.

Activity 1:

Try these – what would the hypothesis be and how could you test it?

Problem Observations Hypothesis Experiment

Your neighbour
It seems to happen
complains about
more to school shirts
getting small flies all
than to trousers and
over her washing hung
skirts.
in the garden.

You notice your fizzy

drinks are going flat
more quickly than You’ve been storing
usual. them in a cupboard
because the fridge is
full.

The plants in your

house keep dying.
You notice that they
are on a shelf above
the radiator.

Your apples sometimes It happens more often

go mouldy when you when you have
keep them in the fruit bananas in the bowl
bowl. too.
Activity 2:

The Outwood Grange Academy kitchen needs to cook for nearly 2000 people each lunchtime. They
want to make their water boil faster in saucepans for cooking potatoes, pasta, rice and vegetables. They
have heard that adding salt to water affects how fast it boils.

a) What would your hypothesis be?

Plan an investigation to test your hypothesis.

You must include;

• The equipment that you plan to use
• How you will use the equipment
• The measurements that you are going to make
• How you will make it a fair test
• A risk assessment (health and safety)

b) What equipment will you be using?

c) Write a step by step method explaining how to do the experiment.

d) What measurements will you be making in your investigation?

e) What will you do to make this a fair test?

f) Are there any health and safety things that could go wrong? How likely are they to happen?
What will you do to reduce the risk of them happening?
 Science Review
This wonderword contains the names of twelve items of laboratory equipment. Find them and write their name
on the equipment list.

T R I P B M E T E L H O Equipment List
B U N S E N B U R N E R 1………………………………………….
U F T A A S A X V E A F 2………………………………………….
D I E F K P A E Z N T W 3………………………………………….
N L S E E A C L A M P F 4………………………………………….
A T T T R T D O P I R T
5………………………………………….
T E U Y M U W T D V O G
6………………………………………….
S R B G L L E T L S O A
7………………………………………….
T F E L C A O S M T F U
8………………………………………….
R U A A P N R P E O M Z
9………………………………………….
O N K S G A U Z E M A T
10………..……………………………….
T N F S R N L M B R T E
E E T E S T T U B E L A 11……..………………………………….

R L S S A T U H E A P S 12…..…………………………………….

Use the following words to complete the statements below.

/ bunsen carefully fair observations
laboratory data celcius equipment thermometer
unreliable safety experiments variables

1. The science __________________ is very different to other classrooms and contains a

lot of special _________________.
2. There are certain rules that must be followed in order to work ___________________
in the science laboratory. All students need to know the ________________ rules.
3. Scientists make ___________________, suggest hypotheses, perform
_________________ and draw conclusions.
4. A ______________ burner is used to heat substances in the laboratory.
5. A __________________ is used to measure temperature in degrees _________________.
6. __________________ is often recorded in tables.
7. It is important that scientific tests are _____________.
8. ____________________ are factors that can affect the outcome of a scientific test.
9. If a scientific test is not well designed, the data obtained will be _________________.