Planning scientific tests to solve a bakery problem | 14-16 years

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Develop your students’ practical skills, including planning, observation, measurement and problem-solving, using this active lesson plan for 14–16 year olds.

In this activity, students are set a problem by the manager of an imaginary bakery. The bakery explains it is looking for two people to do some occasional laboratory work for it. To decide who to employ, the bakery manager asks the school to set up an analytical exercise for students to show what they can do. In the trial, groups compete with one another to tackle the problem set by the bakery manager.

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