Working Scientifically¶
Working Scientifically isn't a module you finish — it's seven skills that show up inside every focus area's content and practicals. This page is the reference toolkit: come here whenever a topic page links you in for a specific skill.
The seven outcomes: questioning and predicting, planning investigations, conducting investigations, processing data, analysing data and information, problem-solving, and communicating.
Status
Toolkit content not yet written. Sections below are placeholders to be filled in as they're first needed by a topic page (see the site's depth-first build order).
Questioning and predicting¶
(hypotheses, testable questions, identifying variables — TODO)
Planning¶
(variables and controls, risk assessment template — TODO)
Conducting¶
(TODO)
Processing data¶
(significant figures, uncertainty/error, percentage error, mean, standard deviation — TODO)
Analysing¶
(TODO)
Problem-solving¶
(TODO)
Communicating¶
(referencing conventions — TODO)
Reference tables¶
- Scale prefixes (femto → peta) — TODO, also linked from Assumed Knowledge
- Command verb glossary (Identify/Describe/Explain/Analyse/Evaluate/Justify etc.)