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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. Online 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 31st January 2017
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