VARIABLES PRACTICE
DIRECTIONS:
Overview:
This resource is a great way to teach your students how to identify
scientific variables. At the beginning of every school year I spend
a couple days focusing on this skill so that students understand
how to plan science investigations. This product focuses on
independent, dependent, and controlled variables. This
assignment is on a Google Form and includes a seven minute
video lesson on how to identify variables and nine different
practice problems (23 total questions). In the practice problems,
students will read a scientific question for an investigation and
identify the independent, dependent, and controlled variables.
The Google Form is editable. And, it will grade all the practice
problems for you except for the last two where students must write
their answers. For the last two sections, you will need to look over
students’ answers as the self-grading may mark an answer
incorrect if they did not spell something the same as the answer
key.
How to Use:
This is a great assignment for introducing scientific variables and
for review before state testing. I posted the Google Form in our
online platform (Canvas) and students complete it on their own.
You could assign this for homework or students could complete
this in class with a partner. After students have completed this
assignment, I recommend doing a fun investigation where
students can practice planning an investigation and identify
variables (I like the Bubble Investigation or the Tootsie Pop
Investigation (how many licks does it take to get to the center of a
tootsie pop).)
1. Click here for the Variables Video Lesson (it is already
embedded in the Google Form)
2. Click here for the Variables Practice Google Form Assignment