Carry out a practical investigation in a biology context, with supervision
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This standard asks you to design and carry out a complete practical biology experiment from start to finish, working under your teacher's guidance. You'll develop a scientific question, plan a fair test or data collection method, collect real data, analyse what you found, and explain what it means in terms of biology concepts.
You carry out all the basic steps of an investigation — hypothesis, method, data collection, analysis, and conclusion — with the investigation producing usable results.
Your investigation shows you've thought carefully about avoiding errors and bias in your method, your data clearly shows a trend or pattern, and your conclusion properly connects your findings to biological concepts using both your data and other sources.
You explain why you made the choices you did in your method, discuss both the strengths and limitations of how you collected your data, and fully explain your conclusion in terms of the underlying biology involved.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.