🔍 Part 1: Your Investigation Question

1. Write your investigative question about a local community or school matter:

Example: "How many hours per day do Year 8 students at our school spend on digital devices?"

2. Why is this question important to investigate? What do you hope to learn?

📊 Part 2: Variables and Groups

3. What is/are the main variable(s) you will be investigating?

Example: "Hours spent on digital devices per day" or "Favourite sport"

4. Who is your group of interest? (Who will you collect data from?)

Example: "Year 8 students at our school" or "Families in our neighbourhood"

5. How many people do you think you could realistically survey for your investigation?

6. What do you expect to find out? Write your conjecture (prediction) below:

Example: "I think most Year 8 students spend 3-5 hours per day on digital devices because..."

7. What prior knowledge or experience makes you think this? Explain your reasoning:

8. How might you collect data to answer your investigative question?

Survey or questionnaire

Observations

Interviews

Existing data sources

Other: ________________________