Have you ever made a guess or a prediction? Have you ever predicted who was going to win the premiership? Have you ever predicted who was going to win the X factor? If you answered yes than you have made a hypothesis.

A hypothesis is basically a guess or prediction based on what you think might happen or what you may think will be true. It can then be either proved or disproved my observation or collecting data.

I believe it will rain tomorrow. How can you test this hypothesis? You can test this hypothesis by simple observation..

I believe there are more boys than girls in the school How can you test this hypothesis? You would have to collect data and then count how many boys there were to girls. This is where data collection sheets and questionnaires are needed.

For the last two years, the Brady house have won the sports day. We need to investigate and find out if Brady house really are the best at sports! Maybe some other houses are actually better at sports than you think! Along the way you may want to find out if boys are better than girls or vice versa! – ARE YOU GAME?

To investigate our hypothesis we must first create a data collection sheet. For example if we wanted to find out if a girl was good at sport, the only way we would find out is by recording her gender. For this task it is important that you make the sheet user friendly. It must be easy for a sports Judge to fill in.

You will need to find out the following information: Forename Surname Date of Birth Gender House (only four available) * Form Sport they took part in (only two available – Hurdles/Sprint) * Time Try to keep to the Olympics theme and make it as friendly as possible.

Your work will be uploaded to the Moodle at the end of the lesson and Mr Chambers and Mr Johal will assess them to see which ones are the best. Remember that the best ones will be featured on the website where Mr Shearer and other schools and your parents will comment on your success: