18 complete investigative assignments featuring superb animation that develop and assess students’ ability to:
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1. identify independent and dependent variables
2. design fair tests
3. assess the reliability and validity of qualitative and quantitative data
4. present, analyse and interpret data
5. draw conclusions
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Biology:
- Choosy woodlice
- Investigating the growth of yeast
- Measuring heights
- Testing for starch in plant leaves
- Using food tests
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Chemistry:
- Cooling distilled water and salt water
- Forming compounds from atoms
- Indigestion tablets
- Particle theory
- Self-heating coffee cans
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Physics:
- Fish scales and Hooke's Law
- Principles of moments
- Series and parallel circuits
- The strength of electromagnets
- Weighing objects on the Earth, Moon and in deep space
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System requirements:
Pentium III or above
Windows 98 or later
Hard Drive: 20MB
Memory: 16MB
Graphics: 800 x 600 x 16bit colour
CDROM drive