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Unit 1 Chemical Fundamentals-structure, properties and reactions - Properties and structure of materials

Chosen green energy is clean energy

Investigate one of the following claims:
• Nanomaterials have important uses.
• Most sulphur dioxide released to the atmosphere comes from burning coal or oil in electric power stations
• Green energy is clean energy.
• Impurities negatively affect the chemical and physical properties of substances.

Assignment Task
Gather secondary evidence related to a research question in order to evaluate the claim. Develop your research question based on a number of possible claims provided by your teacher.

Obtain evidence by researching scientifically credible sources, such as scientific journals, books by well-credentialed scientists, and websites of governments, universities, independent research bodies or science and technology manufacturers. You must adhere to research conventions.

Select a claim to be evaluated
• identify the relevant scientific concepts associated with the claim
• pose a research question addressing an aspect of the claim
• conduct research to gather scientific evidence that may be used to address the research question and subsequently evaluate the claim
• analyse the data to identify sufficient and relevant evidence
• identify the trends, patterns or relationships in the evidence
• analyse the evidence to identify limitations
• interpret the evidence to construct justified scientific arguments
• interpret the evidence to form a justified conclusion to the research question
• discuss the quality of the evidence
• evaluate the claim by extrapolating the findings of the research question to the claim
• suggest improvements and extensions to the investigation
• communicate findings in an appropriate scientific genre, i.e. empirical essay.

Attachment:- Research Investigation.rar