Samuel explores how to make signs that are visible in the dark. His letter shows how he works out solutions to the challenge.

Samuel's letter describing his signs

Investigating in Science

Exploring a situation
Samuel's letter shows he makes observations and looks for patterns or relationships.

Making predictions
Samuel actively contributes to the class discussion and is able to predict possible outcomes for simple trials and give reasons (see Teacher-student conversation).

Processing and interpreting
Samuel reaches a conclusion to a simple investigation linked to his own understanding when he writes about using different colours to make signs easy to read at night.

Reporting
His comments are brief but he reports on some of his investigation in an organised way.