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Working like a scientist
Working like a scientist
We can use five different types of scientific enquiry to find answers to different kinds
of science questions.
Research
Sometimes we cannot find the answer to a scientific question in a direct way, such
as by doing an investigation or by speaking to people. Instead, we can do research
to find the information we are looking for by reading books, using the internet or
watching videos. These are all known as secondary sources of information. We can
use this type of scientific enquiry to:
• find out about new scientific discoveries or discoveries made in the past, for
example the discovery of magnetism
• find information to answer questions about different topics, such as which birds
migrate to your country each year; compare information from different sources
and decide which answer is best, for example which foods contain
different vitamins or how plants and animals
are adapted to their environment
• find images, such as examples of
Earth features, that satellites in
space photograph and send back
to scientists on Earth
• help us realise that sometimes
there is no definite answer
to a question, for example
why the Earth’s axis is
tilted at an angle.
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