Pip’s picnic: follow the clues

Year 6 · Student investigation

When should a new clue change a guess?

Draw, point or explain aloud. A partner or adult may record your words.

Predict before seeing the answer

Will one clear-sky clue undo two cloudy clues? Does the starting guess matter?

Two comparisons

What did you change? What stayed the same? What did you notice?

Challenge your first explanation

Set clue reliability to 0.5. Explain why uninformative clues should not change the starting probability.

Make and explain

A clue-by-clue story graph with one observation about evidence strength.

Limit the claim

This activity can show _ . It cannot tell us _ . A new case I would test is ____ .

Use fictional data. Download or print your work before leaving.