Year 7 Science – Scientific Enquiry Extended Practice Pack

Add depth, challenge, and extra practice to your Year 7 Science “I’m a Scientist” unit.
This printable pack complements Week 7 – Scientific Enquiry and provides seven additional worksheets with a full teacher answer key. Students consolidate their understanding of scientific inquiry through matching, reasoning, scenario-based questions, and review quizzes.

Lesson Content Covers / Skills Practised:

Recognising different types of scientific inquiry (experiment, observation, research, survey, model)

Choosing suitable methods for a question and justifying decisions

Comparing observations and experiments

Identifying independent, dependent, and control variables

Planning mini-investigations and choosing suitable graphs

Reviewing and assessing inquiry-based learning

What’s Included:

• Sorting Activity: 12 scenarios to classify by inquiry type

• Reasoning Task: select and justify the best method for a question

• Observation vs Experiment Comparison

• Investigation Scenario Practice: identify variables and graph type

• Question Review Quiz

• Teacher Answer Key with full model answers

How it can be used:

As extension or follow-up work to the “Variables in tables and graphs” lesson

For group, pair, or individual practice

As revision or retrieval for end-of-unit assessments

Ideal for homework or cover lessons

Keywords: Year 7 Science, KS3 Science, WJEC, scientific inquiry, variables, experiment planning, observation, research, survey, graph skills, fair test, worksheets, PDF.

File Type: .pdf (print-friendly black and white, with answer key included)