You can
observe and measure carefully and accurately in an activity. You can use
these skills to collect DATA.Now you need to do something with it - INTERPRETING.
This means making sense of the information or data you have collected.
One of the best ways to start is to record your data
in the form of a table. You have seen some tables already. Make sure your table is neat and clearly labelled with a heading for each column.
The heading should also contain the units if it is a measurement.
There are tables in the next set of activities.
Look at your data. Is there a pattern? Does one set
of measurements change in one direction. They might become steadily larger.
The water in a beaker might increase in temperature. Look at the other column
how did that change? It might be time. You may then notice that as the time
increases so does the temperature. This can often be shown more clearly by using the data to draw a bar chart or graph. Always label the axis and give chart or graph a title.
When you have thought about the patterns you have seen you will be able to write your conclusion.
It might be something like this - The longer I heat the water the hotter it becomes. In other words the temperature increases.
Click here for some bar chart and graph work.