Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 9, Issue 1, Article 4 (June, 2008) Hilal AKTAMIŞ & Ömer ERGIN The effect of scientific process skills education on students’ scientific creativity, science attitudes and academic achievements Previous Contents

Appendix 3

Open-Ended Work Sheet Example

Problem Sentence: How can you find which of us is stronger?

My assumption or hypothesis:

a. What are our variables?

The variable which we will change: Velocity of the body

The variable which we will measure: Distance between the car and the place where the body flew out.

The variable which we will keep constant: Mass of the body.

b. How will I perform the experiment?

c. How will I collect my data? (Which measurement tool will I use?)

1. Let’s create a table which we can take note the data that we collected while doing experiment.

2. If we can display our table in graph, then let’s display it.

3.Which results did we obtain after doing this experiment? What do our graphs tell us?

4. Does our result obtained verify our answer?

5. Did we encounter an unexpected result?

6. At the end of this activity, what did you learn that you did not know before?

7. During this activity, which knowledges and skills that you had before did you use?