Bird Beaks Investigation Planner

Team members’ names: ________________________

What are you trying to find out?

What is your question for investigation? What do you predict will happen? Explain why.

What happens to________________________

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when we change ________________________

Give scientific reasons for your predictions.
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To make the test fair, what things (variables) are you going to:

Change? Measure/Observe? Keep the same?

Change only one thing What would the change affect? Which variables will you control?

What equipment do we need?

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What are we going to do?

Change only one thing Change only one thing Change only one thing
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Beak Type Test 1- Test 2- Pushing Test 3- Seed cracking

Nutrigrain marshmallows along
‘eating’ string
Straw

Peg

Strainer

Recording results

Presenting results
Key:

N= Nutrigrain

M=
Marshmallows
Amount of food eaten in 30

S= Seeds
seconds.

N M S N M S N M S
Straw Peg Nutrigrain

Beak Type

Explaining results

Summarise your results and answer the following questions:

 Which beak type collected the greatest number of marshmallows?

Why?
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 Which beak collected the most food overall? Can you think of birds
with beaks similar to this design?