Science notes - Using the Science Museum's'Mystery Boxes' as a model for science and'How science works'

By Matt French

Issue 347 | Page 15 | Published Dec 2012

Description

For this activity, the class is divided into six groups and one box is handed to each group. The groups have a number of minutes to try to work out and record their ideas about what is in each box.

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