Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Basic Science: Understanding Experiments
Using four separate experiments, this course covered experimental design, setup, measurement, data recording and display. On-line discussion forums enabled students to develop hypotheses, to compare results and discuss conclusions.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dave Hall
University Secretary
The Open University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Demonstrate and carry out a basis scientific experiment
- Investigate and test any hypothesis using experimental techniques
- Record and analyse results from your experiments
- Discuss and share ideas with fellow students online
Syllabus
- Evaporation during heating, quantified by weight
- Relationship between density and state of matter by freezing fluids
- Living organisms and the requirements for life
- Extraction of DNA from fruit
Issued on 10th October 2016
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